The Team Sprint events have brought the curtains down on the 2014 FIS Rollerski World Cup yesterday. After the first stages in Croatia and Sweden, the alpine valley of Val di Fiemme, Italy hosted the last three competitions of the season.

Kjetil Jansrud sustained a season-ending injury in a crash in the opening super-G race at the Schladming 2013 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. However, the Norwegian came back with a vengeance last season and claimed gold in the super-G and bronze in the downhill at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games.

The French Nordic Combined team spent the last few days at Premanon for a week-long training camp.

Shaun White is more motivated to keep competing after his Olympic disappointment, particularly in slopestyle, he said on a New York media tour Tuesday.

Yesterday, 17th September, during “Open Doors” for Media the President of the Alpine Skiing and Snowboard Federation of Russia Leonid Melnikov announced the candidate for the position of the Main Coach in alpine skiing.

On 15th September, Kreischberg (AUT) marked four-month marks until the 2015 FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships get underway. The first-ever combined Championships will be held from 15th – 25th January 2015 in the Styrian mountains in Kresichberg and Lachtal with 24 medal events scheduled.

The 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships will soon sport a new fresh look as Official Artist, Carrie Fell recently completed the artwork that will be utilized for the second World Championships poster entitled “Hang Time”.

The second edition of the FIS Development Programme Nordic Summer Training Camp in Val di Fiemme (ITA) recently concluded with athletes from 16 different nations taking part in the two-week camp from 1st-13th September 2014.

Sunday, 14 September, French freestyle and snowboard team doctor Damien Parcot died in Ecrins mountains in France.

Claudia Riegler is the only active athlete on the World Cup circuit who has competed in the first ever World Cup event in Zell am See/Kaprun back in November 1994.