Vladimir Putin will meet representatives of IOC and will hold negotiations with the President of IOC Jacques Rogge tomorrow during a visit to St. Petersburg.

Winter Games NZ is one of the top five events on the international winter sports circuit featuring no less than seven World Cup events over the 11-day programme.

All the Sochi ski-resorts “Rosa-Khutor”, “Alpika-Service”, “Laura” and “Russkiye Gorki” will be provided with a unified ski-passes.

The leader of the Australian national team David Morris who won the second place of the FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup in aerials discipline previous season begins his pre-season trainings.

Five “Live Sites” platforms with big screens broadcasting the Olympic events from Krasnaya Polyana and Olympic Park will be open at Sochi during the Olympic days.

The number of border guides at Sochi will be increased. 

The winner of the World Cup, the first-ever woman who earned more than 2000 points, Tina Maze talks her coach’s Livio Magoni leaving.

Today, 24 May, FIS members and representatives of Russian organizations, who took part in inspection of Olympic venues, leave Sochi.

As every year, Forum Nordicum, the international group of Nordic winter sports journalists, has given away its awards for the media friendliest venues on the World Cup tours. 

America’s marquee Olympic star has visited the clinic of the East German doping doctor who played an instrumental role in the German Democratic Republic’s notorious, state-sponsored program to dope unwitting young athletes with hardcore anabolic steroids.