It will be eight athletes for the Austrian team for this years Summer Grand Prix in Oberwiesenthal, Montafon, Oberstdorf and Sochi, as the Austrian Ski Federation published today.

Former Alpine World Cup skier Marco Büchel (LIE) earlier this month joined Christoph Kunz (SUI, two-time Paralympic Champion monoski) and Anna Schaffelhuber (GER, five-time Paralympic Champion monoski) on a trip to Uganda as part of their roles as Right to Play Ambassadors.

The FIS representatives were in Canada from 13th-18th August 2015 to inspect the venues that are set to host Ski Tour Canada 2016 Cross-Country Skiing events in Gatineau, Montréal, Québec City, and Canmore from 1st-12th March 2016.

OESV Ski Cross Head Coach Gerold Posch invited seven athletes to Switzerland to tweak their giant slalom skills whilst also testing some new material.

Like their Ski Jumping counterparts, the Nordic Combined athletes are kept busy during the summer with a Summer Grand Prix series, which has its first competition on Saturday, 29th August 2015 in Oberwiesental (GER).

Sarah Hendrickson will not be able to compete next season due to a knee injury.

With the season's first slopestyle World Cup already in the books, the focus has turned to the Cardrona superpipe. The competition will see the worlds finest entering the event including Iouri Podladtchikov.

The Pine Mountain Ski Jump, located between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan, is currently a HS 133 hill.

While the Nordic Combined Summer Grand Prix has been a fixture on the calendars for the last 15 years, seldom has one edition been as colourful as the upcoming one.

The 2nd Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) will be held from 12 to 21 February 2016 in Lillehammer, Norway.