Five days after his fall in Bischosfhofen, Simon Ammann was now released from the hospital. 

The year 2014 will be remembered as one of the most successful years in the history of Polish sports. In Sochi, Poland has won a record of six Olympic medals.

Switzerland – In the first run of Sunday's slalom German Fritz Dopfer made good use of his bib number and crossed the finish line in 56.21 seconds, a time unbeaten by skiers who came down the Kaunisbergli after him.

Sara Takanashi also won the second World Cup competition in Sapporo (JPN). With a strong jump in the final round, the 18-year-old moved up from seventh to first and came in ahead of Carina Vogt and Austrian Chiara Hoelzl.

The final event of a stacked FIS Freestyle weekend took place under the lights at Utah's Deer Valley Resort, with a thrilling dual moguls competition that saw Justine Dufour-Lapointe (CAN) and Mikael Kingsbury walk away with victories, yellow moguls leader bibs, and trophies for winning the respective men's and ladies' athlete of the weekend accolades.

With the 11th worlds just around the corner, and the first snowboard medal event of the first ever combined FIS Freestyle Ski & Snowboard World Championships taking place with the snowboard cross event at Kreischberg on January 15th and 16th, FISSnowboard.com met up with Lindsey Jacobellis who is currently training in Copper Mt.

Wolfgang Loitzl announced his retirement during the ski flying World Cup in his home town Bad Mitterndorf.

In the closest competition of the season with 5 men separated by just 0.7 seconds it was Tim Tscharnke of Germany who came out on top. In a photo finish with Kazakhstan's Alexey Poltoranin, Tscharnke recorded his first World Cup victory since Canmore in December 2012. Just +0.4 behind in third was Dario Cologna of Switzerland.

Team SUI1 with Olympic Champion Patrizia Kummer and Olympic Silver medallist Nevin Galmarini have claimed victory at the season's second Parallel Team Event (PSL) which was staged on the Bucheben slope in Bad Gastein, Austria today.

Last year's Tour de Ski champion Therese Johaug of Norway finally won her first stage of this years Tour. Stage 6 saw the ladies' competing in the 10 km classic mass start event in Val di Fiemme, Italy.