The Grass Ski World Championships are just a week away and will be held a world away for many of the competitors as the event will be held in Shichikashuku (JPN) from September 3rd-8th. It marks a return of the event to Japan after a 26 year hiatus, when Nagano last hosted the competition in 1987. 

Norway’s Tiril Sjaastad Christiansen and USA’s Nick Goepper from USA won the ladies and men’s events at the FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup slopestyle in Cardrona, New Zealand. It was the grand finale of this year’s Audi Quattro Winter Games NZ.

Work is underway on implementation of the project of creating of Joint Training Center at the Sakhalin Region.

Tomorrow, 29 August, Vanessa May, who plans to compete in the Olympic Games Sochi-2014, will take part in the Open Championship of Australia and New Zealand in alpine skiing.

The Russian alpine skier Yelena Yakovishina took part in official FIS competitions in Super-G and Combination.

The Ministry of sports of Russia invites parents to take their children to choose a sport school.

The stuff of the Institute of Foreign Languages of Sergey Yesenin University of Ryazan produced a project of a phrase book for the coming Olympic Games.

Five American policemen from New-York came to the capital of the Winter Olympic Games-2014.

Timofey Slivets won Mondial Acrobatx-2013, Assoli Slivets became the second.

Tomorrow, 21 August, a new stage of the World peace program "Heritage today" will begin in Sochi.