The FIS competition season 2016/17 featured outstanding competitions and performances. The impressive number of ski and snowboard competitions worldwide once again reached more than 6,000 events.
Spring has arrived, signalling the completion of another successful FIS competition programme in the Northern Hemisphere.
Some exceptional Alpine athletes retired following the Olympic season. FIS thanks them all for the wonderful moments and emotions they provided in the FIS World Cup and World Championships.
Like every year, the provisional competition calendars for the upcoming summer and winter season were announced at the FIS Sub Committee meetings in Zurich (SUI).
The strongest Russian Nordic Combined athlete, Ernest Yahin, has been a World Cup starter for six years. But this season, he has found a confidence on the hill and showed that he could fight and beat rivals and really filled out his role as leader of the Russian team. Anastasia Shuhova spoke to the Russian number one for TUESDAY TALK.
Grandvalira-Andorra hosted, as it did last year, the FIS Speed Ski World Cup Finals last weekend.
This weekend, the Russian national championships in Nordic Combined took place in Chaikovskiy and women’s COC champion Stefaniya Nadymova and Ernest Yahin took the titles.
Emma Terho from Finland (ice hockey) and Kikkan Randall from USA (cross-country skiing) have been elected to the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s athletes’ commission by their fellow olympians at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018.
Two-time Olympic medallist Lydia Lasilla (AUS) is retiring from aerial skiing after her dreams of a third medal were dashed when she failed to land her jumps during qualifications at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games on Thursday.
