On Thursday morning, during a press conference held in St.Anton, Austrian slalom specialist Mario Matt announced his retirement from ski racing.

It was a tremendous display of skiing under the lights in Tignes, France, on Friday night at the halfpipe World Cup finals, as Canadians Mike Riddle and Cassie Sharpe took impressive wins in the competition, while runners-up on the evening David Wise (USA) and Ayana Onozuka (JPN) were awarded the 2014/15 halfpipe World Cup titles and crystal globes.

Severin Freund celebrated his seventh win this season in Trondheim and took the lead in the overall World Cup. In a sometimes turbulent competition, the German won with jumps on 135 m and 139 m and 265.3 points.

The final weekend of the 2014/15 FIS World Cup season will come to a close in Oslo, Norway with the 30 km and 50 km Holmenkollen competitions.

Magnus Moan has taken the second-but-last individual victory of the season at his home venue of Trondheim.

Maiken Caspersen Falla and Eirik Brandsdal, both of Norway won today's 1.3 km classic sprint competition in Drammen.

In glorious spring weather, the first day of the FIS Youth Cup in Trondheim was concluded with wins of Norway’s Benjamin Østvold, Finland’s Wille Karhumaa and in the first-ever Ladies Nordic Combined competition for girls on now for Austria’s Lisa Eder and Timna Moser.

As part of a commitment to the environment, World Snow Day Organisers are encouraged to teach children how to take care of their natural surroundings.

The 2014/15 FIS Freestyle World Cup season concludes this Sunday in beautiful Megeve, France, with two of the greatest who have ever skied the bumps looking to put exclamation marks on impressive seasons and, in one case, looking to put a final stamp on an wonderful career.

Few major cities around the world have ski and snowboard hills within 15 minutes of its centre and 20 minutes from a major international airport.