US snowboard star Jamie Anderson has won the 2014 season's first FIS Snowboard World Cup which was staged today as part of the Audi quattro Winter Games NZ 2013 at Cardrona Alpine Ski Resort.

The four time Olympic Champion Simon Ammann brought the Swiss national team to Courchevel on a board of his own plane. 

Russian pole vault legend Yelena Isinbayeva said Thursday she was against a boycott of next February's Sochi Olympics over a controversial law banning gay "propaganda" for minors.

An exhibition about sports in Russia in XVlll-XlX centuries will open in Sochi.

Good news came from New Zealand: organizers of tomorrow's competition gave two additional quotes for Russian team.

Alexandra Pretorius suffered a serious knee injury during training in France and will now be sidelined for several months.

At the most recent Executive Board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) held on 9th August 2013 in Moscow (RUS), the proposed 2016 Lillehammer Winter Youth Olympic Games Programme was on the agenda. 

Preparations are quietly yet industriously progressing at POCOG, the Organising Committee for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang (KOR). 

On 1st July 2014 registration for the 3rd edition of World Snow Day (19th January 2014) was launched. In the short space of six weeks, 23 Organisers in 14 countries have already registered for the next event.

The Ministry of Health  announced that it will make a vaccination of stuff of hosting organizations of the Olympic Games Sochi-2014 who will get in contact with guests and participants of the event.