For the third straight season Beijing’s iconic Bird’s Nest Stadium kicked off the FIS Freestyle Aerials World Cup season. Among 50 World’s best athletes it was Ashley Caldwell (USA) and Guangpu Qi (CHN) to grab the win in the individual competitions.

After the snowboard cross World Cup originally scheduled for Cortina d'Ampezzo had to be cancelled ten days ago due to the current lack of snow, Local Organisers and FIS Officials agreed on substituting the event by a psl race.

When the Nordic Combined elite convenes for one last time in 2015 for the traditional pre-Christmas World Cup in Ramsau am Dachstein, everybody will be dealt a new hand of cards. Moving from the Scandinavian large hills in Ruka and Lillehammer to the comparatively small HS 98 normal hills in the Austrian venue usually brings the stronger skiers to the fore.

Great news after the difficult start into the season 2015/16: One of the competitions that had to be cancelled due to the strong and rapidly changing winds in the Northern Finnish venue has been rescheduled in Trondheim, Norway in February.

After Amelie Kober and Isabella Laböck have already been sidelined from the first World Cup races due to an injury, Snowboard Germany know has to handle another loss of their so far pretty strong women's raceboard team.

SnowKidz is the first phase of the Bring Children to the Snow campaign that started in 2009, The project is proving vital to provide many best practices for staging events that bring children to the snow. In 2012, the success of the SnowKidz activities gave rise to the World Snow Day concept with the 4th edition that took place on 18th January 2015, seeing 645 events in 45 countries.

In our series "FIS Ski Jumping-Talk" we present interviews with ski jumping athletes and officials. Today: Michael Hayboeck (24).

It is anniversaries galore in December on the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup with three host venues celebrating major milestones.

Sometimes life has this funny way of pulling you back before you can take a step up to a new and better level. This might be what Austrian newcomer David Pommer is thinking after the last Continental Cup weekend in Utah, USA.

Despite the currently mild temperatures, the organizers could already give the green light for all four competitions of the 4-Hills-Tournament in Germany and Austria.