Saturday’s slalom marked the last day of World Championships action for the ladies and it couldn’t have been a sweeter ending for the American fans as Mikaela Shiffrin laid out a stunning performance and successfully defended her 2012 World Championships title.

Just as in the years before, Local Organisers of the Snowboard Jamboree are hosting once again an in-city big air World Cup event, right in the heart of downtown Quebec City.

With an amazing jump on 246 m Anders Fannemel won the qualification on the huge hill in Vikersund. Fannemel landed only 0.5 m short of the world record held by his fellow countryman Johan Remen Evensen. With 223.4 points the Norwegian came in ahead of his teammate Andreas Stjernen and Japanese Daiki Ito.

Vail-Beaver Creek, Colorado – The technical male skiers came into play on Friday to battle it out in the giant slalom under sunny skies and ideal conditions. In fifth place after the opening run on a turny and technical course with a lot of tempo changes, which is not his favourite type of set, defending champion Ted Ligety fought back in the second run.

German raceboarder Isabella Laboeck has been forced to an early season end after an injury suffered in the World Cup race at Sudelfeld, Germany, last weekend turned out worth than expected at first.

In an exciting giant slalom race that saw the lead change hands more times than could be counted on two hands, Anna Fenninger (AUT) earned a hard-fought gold against a large, competitive field at the 2015 Alpine World Ski Championships in Beaver Creek.

Although the halfpipe event of the Snowboard Jamboree had to be cancelled last week, athletes and fans in Quebec can look forward to some nice riding in the resort of Stoneham from Feb 18th to 22nd.

For the next two years, Claudia Riegler (AUT) and Roland Fischnaller (ITA) will be the reigning world champions in the parallel giant slalom and parallel slalom, respectively. However, they also could remain the oldest snowboarders ever to win the world title even longer.

Celebrations to mark one year to go to the Winter Youth Olympic Games Lillehammer 2016 (NOR) were kicked off last night in the heart of the host city by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of Norway as he unveiled the OMEGA countdown clock showing 365 days to go.

Members of the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Organising Committee, as well as the St Moritz 2017 and Are 2019 Alpine Ski World Championship Organisers amongst many other Organising Committees, visited Vail-Beaver Creek to inspect the installations and develop an understanding of the infrastructure and organisation ‘behind the scenes’.