Many teams currently take advantage of the excellent training conditions in Oberstdorf (GER) in order to get themselves ready for the upcoming winter season.

About eight months after the last Olympic Winter Games, the Russian national Championships were now held on the hills in Sochi.

Iivo Niskanen aims high next season and looks for victory in 50 km at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun 2015. 

In 2013 Audi New Zealand entered a successful partnership with the Games held biennially in Queenstown, Lake Wanaka and Naseby creating “The Audi quattro Winter Games NZ”. 

AM 1150 reports online that Kelowna's Kelsey Serwa has named named Honorary Captain of Team B.C. for the 2015 Canada Winter Games which will take place in the Prince George area from Feb 13 thru March 1, 2015. 

Simon Ammann won the Swiss National Championships for the fourth time in a row. 

Severin Freund and Carina Vogt were awarded the "Golden Ski" by the German Ski Association (DSV). 

Aksel Lund Svindal ruptured his left Achilles tendon during a physical training session in Sölden, Austria, Saturday afternoon. 

Last December, just before American cross-country skiing star Kikkan Randall turned 31, her teammates gave her a birthday present: a scavenger hunt. The trek took her across one of the Alps’ most beautiful valleys in Davos, Switzerland, where she was training for the Sochi Olympics.