With only a few more days to go to this season's fourth sbx World Cup the preps are well underway.

Maiken Caspersen Falla of Norway and Nikita Kriukov of Russia have won the 11th edition of the Royal Palace Sprints in Stockholm, Sweden.

Due to the current snow situation in La Molina, Spain the snowboard cross World Cup finals will be moved to Baqueira Beret, Spain.

After a huge week in Deer Valley, USA, saw back-to-back competitions held at the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic venue in front of massive crowds at the Visa Freestyle International, the men and ladies of the aerials World Cup tour have jumped back across the pond and landed in Moscow, where an as-big if not bigger show is set to take place this Saturday.

Riders from Canada and the US have left their stamp on the 2015-16 season's first big air World Cup event which took place at Boston in a groundbreaking event for both, the U.S. Grand Prix and the FIS Snowboard World Cup tour.

As the countdown clock to the Winter Youth Olympic Games from 12th-21st February in Lillehammer (NOR) will hit zero this week, below is useful information on how to keep up with the action.

A conference on the topic of good governance was held from 3rd-4th February 2016 in Lisbon (POR) in the frame of the EU funded initiative ‘Support the Implementation of Good Governance in Sport’ (SIGGS).

On 15th February 2016 nominations will close for the 3rd edition of the FIS SnowKidz Award, .

Preparations for the Olympic Winter Games in 2018 took a major step forward last weekend with the Audi FIS Ski World Cup speed events in Jeongseon (KOR), which served as the first official test events for all sports on the Olympic Winter Games programme. The men raced a downhill and super-G on 6th-7th February 2017, offering the racers a first glimpse of the Olympic course.

Peter Prevc won the competition in Trondheim and made a big step towards winning the overall World Cup title. While the difficult wind conditions couldn't really affect the Slovenian Ski Flying World Champion, who jumped on 135 m and 132 m and scored 285.5 points, his main opponents lost some ground. Stefan Kraft and Noriaki Kasai came in second and third.