In October the Olympic Games-2014 flame will be brought to the North Pole on a nuclear-powered icebreaker.

The world champion in ski slopestyle said she’s scheduled to be back on the snow in November, three months after tearing an ACL in training. 

Tomorrow, 29 August the Bike Ride “Moscow-London-Sochi” organized by athletes of Yugra Will will finish in Sochi.

The ski federations of Norway and Sweden have negotiations about hosting a show-competition with participation of sport-stars.

The Head of the Perm Territory Viktor Basarkin hold a meeting on the issue of preparation for the World Cup in ski jumping and Nordic Combined in Chaikovskiy.

With the start of the Olympic season just around the corner in addition to the upcoming IOC Session in September, it has been a busy summer for FIS President Gian Franco Kasper. FIS Newsflash took a moment to sit down with him to look ahead to the exciting future. In the first part of the two-part series, Kasper talks about Sochi and the Olympic movement. 

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.