What are the world’s top Alpine athletes doing in summer? For those whose passion and profession revolves around skiing and snow, summer is when most teams put in the hard work. While some have already left for the southern hemisphere to train in winter conditions, others are skiing on Europe’s glaciers.

Following the Olympic Results Information Service (ORIS) homologation testing of the systems in Sochi (RUS) in early July 2013, the FIS Freestyle Skiing and Snowboard staff met with experts of the Sochi 2014 Organising Committee for another site inspection.

Yesterday, 6 August, the machinery factory of Krasnoyarsk began to deliver the first instalment of torches for the Olympic torch relay.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitriy Medvedev will check the Olympic facilities and hold a meeting on the issue of the process of preparation for the XXll Winter Olympic Games.

The Russian national ski jumping team of Russia had a training camp at Sochi.

Today, 6 August, the Russian national ski-cross "B"-team returns to Moscow after a training camp in Austria.

About two thousand volunteers will take part in conduction of the 2013 World Championship in Athletics which will take part in Moscow on 10-18 August. 

MADRID -- The mayor of Barcelona says he will launch a bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics if Madrid fails to secure the Summer Games in 2020.

The Central Bank of Russia will issue a commemorative 100 rouble note in October, a hundred days before the start of the winter Olympic Games in Sochi.

The Russian national cross-country sprint skiing team goes to New Zealand for a training camp.