The long waiting has come to an end, and the first Audi FIS Ski World Cup speed race of the season has been staged today in beautiful Lake Louise (CAN). After three training runs, there were a lot of speculations about potential winners, but I the end, the athletes have to bring on their performance on D-Day. And that’s what Aksel Lund Svindal did best.

As the winner of the last 5 FIS World Cup Tour competitions, Norway's Martin Johnsrud Sundby is back in familiar territory as the leader of the Ruka Triple mini-tour. Sundby won the men's 10 km free technique interval start competition by +11.2 second ahead of Alex Harvey of Canada and Dario Cologna of Switzerland in third +11.6 seconds back.

Therese Johaug of Norway has won the 5 km free technique interval start competition on day two of the Ruka Triple.

Due to the wind situation, the first Individual Gundersen competition of the weekend in Ruka had to be cancelled. The wind conditions proved to be unstable since early morning and did not allow safe jumping.

The conditions changed for the second run as visibility got worse when snow started to come down. Third after the 1st run, Switzerland's Lara Gut didn't mind it and blazed through the course in a combined time of 2:02.51 to claim the win, after a breathtaking end of the race that saw leader of the 1st run Mikaela Shiffrin crash three gates before the finish line.

Maiken Caspersen Falla and Sondre Turvoll Fossli both of Norway have won the opening competition of the 2015-16 FIS World Cup season.

Swiss freestyle talent Fabian Biesch has been nominated as newcomer of the year for the Credit Suisse Sports Awards. The CSSA honours the most successful Swiss athletes of the year.

After a total of 45 World Cup starts of which he finished five times on the podium including one win in Calgary 2008 Brad Martin has officially retired.

The 2015-16 FIS World Cup season kicks off in one day in Ruka, Finland. Here are a few of the announced National Team rosters for the Ruka Triple 27-29 taking place November, 2015.

The home team has taken it all. Well, almost. On the second day of the mid-week double snowboard cross Europa Cup tour stop on the Pitztal glacier, Austria riders from the hosting nation left no doubt who rules the roost.