After a successful meeting between FIS Chief Race Directors Guenter Hujara and Atle Skaardal and representatives of the Austrian Ski Association on September 3rd, the proposal for Innsbruck to host a Nations Team Event this upcoming February has been confirmed.

The Russian alpine skier Ksenia Alopina took her third place at FIS competition in slalom in New Zealand Treble Cone.

Lindsey Vonn is back skiing on snow, the latest step in her recovery from blowing out her right knee at the World Championships as she prepares for the World Cup season and the Sochi Olympics.

Two-time Olympic snowboardcross gold medalist Seth Wescott walked away uninjured after his 2002 Volkswagen Eurovan struck a moose on a Maine road Thursday.

In October the Olympic Games-2014 flame will be brought to the North Pole on a nuclear-powered icebreaker.

The world champion in ski slopestyle said she’s scheduled to be back on the snow in November, three months after tearing an ACL in training. 

Tomorrow, 29 August the Bike Ride “Moscow-London-Sochi” organized by athletes of Yugra Will will finish in Sochi.

The ski federations of Norway and Sweden have negotiations about hosting a show-competition with participation of sport-stars.

The Head of the Perm Territory Viktor Basarkin hold a meeting on the issue of preparation for the World Cup in ski jumping and Nordic Combined in Chaikovskiy.

With the start of the Olympic season just around the corner in addition to the upcoming IOC Session in September, it has been a busy summer for FIS President Gian Franco Kasper. FIS Newsflash took a moment to sit down with him to look ahead to the exciting future. In the first part of the two-part series, Kasper talks about Sochi and the Olympic movement.