About two thousand volunteers will take part in conduction of the 2013 World Championship in Athletics which will take part in Moscow on 10-18 August. 

MADRID -- The mayor of Barcelona says he will launch a bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics if Madrid fails to secure the Summer Games in 2020.

The Central Bank of Russia will issue a commemorative 100 rouble note in October, a hundred days before the start of the winter Olympic Games in Sochi.

The Russian national cross-country sprint skiing team goes to New Zealand for a training camp.

When Jenny Owens competes at her third and final Olympic Winter Games next February she is hoping for only one thing – to finish with a smile on her face.

The Council appointed Chris Grover as the new Chairman of the Cross-Country Sub-Committee for World and Continental Cups. 

Canada’s Beckie Scott became the first Canadian and indeed first North American to win an Olympic Gold medal in Cross-Country Skiing at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City (USA). 

The FIS Roller Ski World Cup 2013 is slowly reaching its halfway point. Already nine of a total of 22 competitions have taken place since it began in Oroslavje (CRO) on 22nd June 2013.

A law which will control prices in Sochi during the Olympic Games will be investigated by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Yesterday, 1 August, media representatives visited a Center, where a training camp of the Russian national alpine skiing team is held.