In our series "FIS Ski Jumping-Talk" we present interviews with ski jumping athletes and officials. Today: Anders Jacobsen (30).

In just 10 days the Viessmann FIS Tour de Ski performance by Craft Sportswear gets under way already for the 10th time.

Unfortunately, Matthias Mayer’s injuries following his crash during the Downhill in Val Gardena / Gröden, are more serious than originally expected. Further examinations in Innsbruck revealed a fracture of the 6th and 7th thoracic vertebra. Mayer underwent surgery on 19th December to bolt together the 5th to 8th vertebras.

The debut of the parallel giant slalom at the Audi FIS World Cup ended in grand fashion with Norwegian teammates Kjetil Jansrud and Aksel Lund Svindal dueling in the final run. In the end, it was Jansrud’s turn to shine as he edged Svindal across the finish line in the big final.

The past weekend did not only have the Nordic Combined World Cup events in Ramsau am Dachstein, the first OPA Alpencup competitions also got underway in Seefeld, Austria. After collecting first World Cup points in Lillehammer, Vinzenz Geiger and Terence Weber went on a winning spree in the Alpencup

What some feared already became sad reality this morning. Snow Controller Rudi Tusch had to cancel the Nordic Combined World Cup events in Klingenthal which were set for the second and third of January 2016 due to lack of snow.

At the beginning of the World Cup, in 1967, there was only Downhill, Giant Slalom and Slalom.

In what was likely the most dramatic, thrilling competition seen in the seven-year history of the Audi FIS Ski Cross World Cup Innichen/San Candido, reigning world champion Andrea Limbacher (AUT) and the resurgent Victor Oehling Norberg (SWE) were able to stand tall at the end of an exhausting weekend and claim the respective ladies' and men's victories on Sunday.

After Saturday night's incredible aerials World Cup opener from the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing, China, the best aerials athletes in the world were back at it again on Sunday with the aerials World Cup team event.

Prevc said afterwards: “It's a great feeling to win two competitions within 24 hours on the same hill. I already felt during the flight that it would be a long jump, but I didn't really realize it until I saw the numbers on the display.