FIS Cross-Country recently caught up with Norway's Eirik Brandsdal during the team's altitude training camp in Val Senales, Italy. Brandsdal is coming off a career best sprint season in 2014 where he finished second in the overall Sprint rankings. 

Kazakh Evgeni Levgin has been in a wheel chair since a serious car accident in November 2012, in which he suffered an injury of his cervical spine. 

Bjoergen has been coming to Val Senales, Italy for 15 years and as she enters her 16th year on the FIS World Cup tour she is still motivated and focused on her pursuit of excellence. Bjoergen's Norwegian team coach Egil Kristiansen is impressed by what he has seen from the skiing star during a mix of high intensity intervals on snow and interspersed roller skiing. 

After fracturing her tibia and fibula last January, Andrea Dettling should have been comfortably on the way to recovery, but instead of spending the beginning of November preparing for the season the Swiss speed specialist has undergone additional surgery in St.Moritz this Wednesday. 

The eighth annual SportAccord IF Forum concluded on Wednesday at Lausanne’s famous Beau Rivage Palace hotel where leaders in the international sporting world gathered for three days of lectures, workshops and networking

The official snow control for the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Slalom Opening at Levi (FIN) took place on Thursday. FIS Chief Race Director World Cup Men Markus Waldner was pleased with the snow conditions on the race course and the the competitions were confirmed as scheduled on 15th-16th November. 

The Finnish Cup series kicks off this weekend in Vuokatti. The weekend will include a sprint event and a team relay. 

After two training camps in the Swiss resort of Zermatt, which were characterised by some freak weather and hard work, the French team now heads to Tignes for some more on-snow preparations. 

The French alpine snowboarding team led by 2014 PSL World Cup title winner Sylvain Dufour will head to North America on November 3rd to enter its final preparation phase for the new season. 

Robin Duvillard will celebrate his 31st birthday on December 22 and will start in a few weeks his 7th season on the World Cup. Since his inception in 2008 on World Cup he has taken the to learn his craft.