hristy Prior (NZL) and Maxence Parrot (CAN) clinched the penultimate slopestyle competition of the 2014 FIS Snowboard Freestyle World Cup tour which took place in Stoneham, Canada, today.

With his first win in the World Cup, Andreas Wellinger prevented the triumph of Kamil Stoch in front of his home crowd in Wisla. Behind the 18-year-old German and the World Champion of Poland, Michael Hayboeck of Austria finished on a career best third place.

Lindsey Vonn says she had successful surgery on her right knee, posting a photo of herself snuggling with her adopted dog, Leo, on her Facebook page Wednesday.

Defending Olympic champion Alex Bilodeau reminded everyone of his talents ahead of the 2014 Winter Games as he won a World Cup moguls event in Lake Placid.

The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed an order for organization of the Universiade in Krasnoyarsk-2019.

As expected, conditions changed as the evening went on. It started snowing right before the second run. After an outstanding first run, Mikaela Shiffrin stayed focused and raced to the seventh World Cup slalom victory in her young career. She logged a combined time of 1:45.83, 0.83 ahead of runner-up Frida Hansdotter (SWE), while Maria Piatilae-Holmner took third, 1.14 seconds off the pace.

Athletes of national cross-country skiing teams of Belorussia and Ukraine prepare for the Olympic Games Sochi-2014 in the sports complex “Malinovka” in Arkhangelsk region.

Special “Olympic” routes with transport for guests of the Olympic and Paralympic Games are launched in Sochi.

Patrizia Kummer (SUI) and Vic Wild (RUS) won the third and last parallel slalom of the 2014 FIS Alpine Snowboard World Cup tour.

On another snowy day in the Rockies, home team representatives David Wise (USA) and Maddie Bowman (USA) were able to grind out solid runs despite slow conditions to take wins in the Breckenridge FIS Freestyle World Cup/Visa Freeskiing Grand Prix halfpipe event on Sunday.