The last World Cup competition to be held in Åre before the Finals in 2018 saw Slovakia's Petra Vlhova emerge victorious for the first time in her career. In the lead after the first run, the 20-year-old didn’t let the nerves play any tricks on her and put another stunning run together to clock a combined time of 1:44.26. Local hero Frida Hansdotter was the fastest in the second run and finished second, 0.59 seconds off the pace. Norway’s Nina Loeseth rounded out the podium, 0.65 seconds out.

Henrik Kristofferesen (NOR) won the debut men’s slalom race of the 2015-16 Audi FIS World Cup season, beating the rest of the field by 1.09 seconds in a race packed with twists and turns in Val d’Isere (FRA).

Peter Prevc won the second individual competition in Nizhny Tagil. With jumps of 131.5 m and 139.5 m for a total of 267.4 points, the Slovene came in ahead of Michael Hayboeck and Johann Andre Forfang and took his first win this season.

World Cup women’s slalom leader Mikaela Shiffrin was forced to skip today’s GS in Are, Sweden, after suffering an injury to her right knee sustained in a crash while freeskiing on the race slope during warmup.

Sara Hector suffered a serious injury to her left knee in Saturday's World Cup giant slalom race in Åre, Sweden. She is waiting to undergo surgery and will unfortunately miss the rest of the season.

The season's first snowboard cross event of the World Cup tour in Montafon, Austria lived up to the expectations delivering some true advertisement of the sport with passes, tight manoeuvres and plenty of exciting photo finish decisions.

Severin Freund won the first World Cup competition in Nizhny Tagil. With jumps on 132 m and 134 m and a total of 260.0 points, the World Champion took a clear win ahead of Peter Prevc and Joachim Hauer. It was his 20th win in the World Cup.

It was a wild finish in the men’s Audi FIS Alpine World Cup giant slalom race in Val d’Isere (FRA), but in the end it was a familiar name topping the field as Austrian Marcel Hirscher took his second straight giant slalom victory with an impressive 1.29 seconds margin of victory.

Lindsey Vonn held onto her lead after the first run to win the third World Cup giant slalom of the season on Saturday. The overall World Cup leader sped down the Olympia course, which was shortened because of strong winds at the top, to clock a combined time of 2:04.70 to edge out Austria's Eva-Maria Brem (+0.07) and Italy's Federica Brignone (+0.35) at the top of the timesheets.

After the 2.2 km timing point it was already evident that it would be a competition for second place in today's 15 km free technique event in Davos, Switzerland. Norway's Therese Johaug at just 7 minutes into the race had a 21 second lead and it increased to 1:10 by the finish line