For North American race fans, there’s hope for a major alpine event after 2015.

On 16th October the Ski Jumping Championship of Russia continued on the big Ski Jump in Sochi. 

Yesterday, 15th September the Minister of Sport of the Russian Federation Vitaliy Mutko met the Russian national mogul team during his work visit to Sochi.

The Russian national slopestyle ski team changed the place of training camp due to unprepared half-pipe in Hintertux and moved to Switzerland.

The FIS Technical Committee Meetings featured gatherings of the various Freestyle Sub-Committees and Working Groups in parallel to the Freestyle Ski Committee itself. While most of the major planning and preparation work leading up to the 2014 Olympics is now finalised, the Organisers are getting ready for the World Cup season and teams are in full preparation mode.

The Olympic torch which will be brought to open space with no fire set on 7th November by Russian astronauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy was modified.

Railway staff will start the stage-by-stage process of commissioning “Swallow” trains in the area of Sochi and Krasnaya Polyana on 1st November.

St. Petersburg team won the team competitions at the Open Ski Jumping Championship of Russia in Sochi. 

October 14 - Barcelona has abandoned plans to bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, it has been reported in Spain. 

The best Austrian athletes of the season 2012/13 due to the specatators opinion were chosen.