Initial testing revealed damage to a ligament in the ankle but an MRI confirmed that damage was in fact a torn ligament. "Dario will have surgery on Friday and is expected to be sidelined six to eight weeks," said team physician Patrick Noack.

Yesterday saw this season's first NorAm Cup parallel event at Copper Mountain.

The winter resort of Sierra Nevada, host of 2017 FIS Freestyle Skiing and Snowboard World Championships will extend its snow park Sulayr for the up-coming season.

The program of 29th Winter Universiade which will take part in Krasnoyarsk includes 12 sports.

The Prime-Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitriy Medvedev signed an order about building of a new sport center for children in Sochi.

A Soyuz capsule has returned to Earth, carrying the Sochi 2014 Olympic torch after it was taken on its first spacewalk as part of the Russian lead-up to the Winter Games.

November 10 - Munich will not bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics after local citizens voted against it in a referendum held today.

Russia has joined the service truck revolution in cross-country skiing.

Today, 8th November, the Russian national team in ski-cross left Austrian glacier Stubae.