The two Austrian top jumpers Michael Hayboeck and Stefan Kraft have decided to not participate in the next World Cup in Sapporo on the upcoming weekend.

Johan Olsson's gold, silver and bronze medals at the 2015 FIS World Ski Championships was enough to knock out Zlatan Ibrahimovic and become "best male athlete in 2015". Another great award to a great skier at the Sports Gala in Stockholm on Monday evening.

The second-to-last event of the parallel slalom World Cup season takes place next Saturday, January 30th, 2016, with the world's best raceboarders taking over one of the world's great capitals for a city event under the lights.

California native Brandon Davis is among the next generation of slopestyle chargers breaking onto the pro slopestyle scene.

Being a pro freestyle snowboarder since the age of 16 in a country which doesn't provide a real snowpark is a hard job.

The weather finally gave us a break and the final competition of the Mammoth Mountain Grand Prix/World Cup weekend went down without a hitch on Sunday, with Yuki Tsubota (CAN) and Joss Christensen (USA) claiming slopestyle victory on the big Mammoth Unbound course.

Kelly Clark (USA) and Ryo Aono (JPN) claimed victory at this season's second halfpipe World Cup event, staged at Mammoth Mountain (USA) today and took over the lead in the race for the Crystal Globe.

Stefan Kraft won the World Cup competition in Zakopane with two jumps of 133 m and 307.3 points. Together with Michael Hayboeck he secured a double victory for Austria. Third place went to Peter Prevc (SLO).

The French snowboard cross team dominated the second sprint competition of the World Cup tour staged at Feldberg (GER) today.

The Kitzbuehel weekend traditionally ended with a slalom on the Ganslern course. The hill is well-known for having a lot of tricky terrain and many athletes had to struggle with the icy rolls.