Jamie Anderson, the most dominant female slopestyle rider of recent years, and Miyabi Onitsuka, the youngest ever FIS Snowboard World Champion, will lead a strong field of athletes into the qualifiers for the opening of the World Cup season at Cardrona Alpine Ski Resort.

Poland’s multi-time Olympic and World Championship medallist, Justyna Kowalczyk, beat all the skiers, male or female, in the 29th edition of Argentina’s Marchablanca on Sunday August 16th, 2015. Second place overall and first place for men went to Argentina’s Carlos Lannes at 5 seconds back.

The shaping crew has done a great job in the Big Bucks Terrain Park putting together a decent course for this season's Slopestyle World Cup opener.

Tomas Portyk is not having a comfortable summer at all, as he tells on the website of the Czech Ski Association. For the young Nordic Combined athlete who’s talent definitely lies in ski jumping, the summer equals „training hell“ as he is trying to push his limits in the cross-country part.

A busy training week is waiting for the Italian ladies teams. While the World and European Cup slalom teams headed to the Swiss glacier of Saas-Fee until the 23rd of August, the World and European Cup speed team will train in Cervinia until August 21.

The final events of the 2015 Australian Championships for Cross Country Skiing were held this weekend August 15-16 at Falls Creek in Victoria.

Once again Cardrona Alpine Resort will host the World Cup competitions as a part of the Audi quattro Winter Games New Zealand. With the starting lists chock-full of World’s best athletes, the bar is going to be set high right from the beginning of the 2015/2016 Freestyle World Cup season.

Also after the end of his career in ski jumping, Thomas Morgenstern still wants the challenge of a competition: He was recently participating in the 15th Helicopter World Championships in Poland.

On Thursday, the reigning Olympic PSL champion fell from the training tool and suffered a luxation of her right elbow.

A nice side story from the Grand Prix in Courchevel (FRA).