On 20th April, the first training camp during the pre-season preparation of Russian national team finished.

The preparation for the Olympic Games Sochi-2014 gave a serious push to development of children and mass sport at Sochi and in Kuban.

The main Poland national ski jumping team squad went for a week-long vacation to Egypt on Federation's funds.

The Congress of the Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined of Russia didn't change the Main Coach of the ski jumping team Alexander Arefyev, regardless the bad results of the season.

The Austrian Ski Federation reported that Marko Pfeifer has been named new coach of Austrian slalom World Cup team.

The Congress of the Association of International Sports Press which takes part at Sochi these days becomes a test in hospitality for Sochi and Russia. 

Whilst the competition season for the other FIS disciplines is already over, Speed Skiing has still been in top gear and all eyes turned to Verbier (SUI) where the finals for the world’s best Speed Skiers were held from 15th-17th April.

The Tour de Ski 2012/13 evaluation meeting in Munich (GER) on 11th April saw almost 30 representatives of the Organising Committees, Infront Italy and FIS Marketing AG, as well as FIS conduct a debrief on the seventh edition of the Viessmann FIS Tour de Ski performance by Craft Sportswear.

On 13th and 14th April, during the Zurich (SUI) spring meetings, gatherings of the Nordic Combined Sub-Committee for Officials, Rules and Control, as well as of the Nordic Combined Executive Board took place where new proposals, calendars and the general strategy for Nordic Combined were discussed.

The spring meetings of the various Ski Jumping Sub-Committees were held in Zurich (SUI) on 12th and 13th April.