With seven competitions in five countries on three continents, the FIS Freestyle Skiing aerials World Cup tour once again brought the highest-flying action in sports to some of the most unique venues on the FIS calendar in 2016/17. 

French super star Jason Lamy Chappuis, Olympic and five-time World Champion, announced his comeback to competition at a press conference held in Paris (FRA) last week.

The basis for a successful winter season already beings in the spring as Portoroz (SLO) is preparing to host the entire FIS Family for the traditional FIS Calendar Conference from 24^th-28^thMay 2017.

Head coach Herrmann Weinbuch and his team Ronny Ackermann and Kai Bracht are approaching the Olympic season 2017/18 with their trusted success team of the past season:

Ilkka Jarva has become the head coach of the Czech Cross-Country team. Jarva is going to spend with the team 150 days in a year and will be supported by Czech coaches who will be responsible for the daily work.

Two months after the conclusion of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017 in St. Moritz (SUI) the Organising Committee presented the outcome of the event at the final debrief in Are (SWE), host of the 2019 World Championships, on 25^th April.

On 25^th April 2017, the International Olympic Committee announced the composition of its working commissions for 2017 which guide the IOC and the Organising Committees for the Olympic Games in their missions.

Here is a summary of the main changes in Alpine Skiing that have been announced to date.

Defending champions Isabel Derungs and Jonas Boesiger have kept hold to their national big air titles in the 2016-17 season's last FIS sanctioned event staged at Corvatsch last weekend.