Veteran Bernhard Gruber has been the dominating athlete at the Austrian nationals on the large and normal hill the past Thursday and this Sunday but behind the 32-year-old, the podium spots were up for grabs among the youngsters of the team. Thursday’s competition at Bergisel, Innsbruck and Seefeld had Gruber on one, ahead of Harald Lemmerer and Alexander Brandner and today’s event at Tschagguns and Partenen saw a podium with Gruber ahead of 18-year-old Bernhard Flaschberger and Lukas Greiderer.

Czech Cross-Country skiing star Lukas Bauer confirmed he would not start in the the 9th edition of the FIS Tour de Ski. The triple Olympic Games medalist and the FIS Tour de Ski winner from 2008 and 2010 decided to focus solely on the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun in February 2015.

It has been more than ten years, that one of the strongest raceboard nations has hosted two different events in one season.

The representatives of the Organizing Committees of the FIS Cross-Country World Cup and the World Cup Technical Delegates gathered in Zürich for another edition of the joint Autumn seminar. More than 50 participants from thirteen countries took part. On Friday evening, the participants took part in a networking event and on Saturday it was time for the presentations, updates and workshops.

Race director Pierre Mignerey opened the Sub-Committee for World and Continental Cup by presenting interesting statistics about sprint results for the last eight seasons.

On Monday 6th October, FIS President Gian Franco Kasper and Secretary General Sarah Lewis met with Yangho Cho, the newly appointed President of the PyeongChang 2018 Organising Committee (POCOG) for the Olympic Winter Games. He was accompanied by Yongsoon Kim, Chief of Staff and Byungnam Lee, Director General, Games Planning & Management Coordination

Two-time Olympic medallist, World Champion and one of the most decorated Freestyle World Cup athletes of all time, Hannah Kearney (USA) is a force unlike any other in the moguls world.

Is he staying or is he going? This question was probably high up on the list of the present journalists at the French team presentations and press conferences at Pavillon Gabriel in Paris last Monday.

By Michael Mastarciyan

Dynamic downhill duo, Adrien Théaux and Johan Clarey are, without a doubt, the Batman and Robin of French alpine ski racing...superheroes on snow!

Reigning World Champion from Val di Fiemme, Sarah Hendrickson, suffered a serious knee injury during training in Obertsdorf over a year ago.