Bad news for Czech number one Miroslav Dvorak: the 28-year-old was diagnosed with mononucleosis and will lose large parts of the season to the recovery process. Mononucleosis requires almost complete rest. If the treatment is successful, Dvorak could return to training at the beginning of December.

With a time advantage of almost five minutes, 29-year-old Tim Hug has won his fifth consecutive national title since 2011 on the past weekend in Einsiedeln. Starting 29 seconds after jumping winner Tobias Birchler, Hug’s victory was not challenged at all.

Simon Ammann defended his title at the Swiss national championships on the Andreas Kuettel hill in Einsiedeln on Sunday.

One day after clinching the season's opener of the alpine snowboard Europa Cup tour in Landgraaf, Holland, Nadya Ochner has celebrated a back-to-back win.

Robert Kranjec seriously injured his arm in a crash during training in Innsbruck, Austria.

Daniela Iraschko-Stolz received the "European Fair Play Award" of the "European Fair Play Movement in Baku.

In a shake-up, Olympic leaders agreed Saturday that drug testing should be independent of sports organizations and urged the World Anti-Doping Agency to take over the responsibility on a global level.

A few weeks before the World Cup opening, the Austrian team spends a week in Cyprus, where, besides the physical training, there's also still enough time for regeneration.

World Champion Cross-Country ski racer Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, AK) is planning to take a break from competition this season. Randall and husband Jeff Ellis announced to her teammates this week that they are expecting their first child in April.

Nadya Ochner (ITA) and Alexander Payer (AUT) have claimed victory in the first of two parallel slaloms which are currently staged in Landgraaf, Holland, as season's opener for the 2015-16 Europa Cup tour.