A two-time Olympic champion in cross-country skiing Petter Northug will take part in a football match of stars as a part of a youth-children tournament Norway Cup.

Swiss Aerials specialist Tanja Schaerer will miss the next winter due to a shoulder injury.

For several years Lukas Bauer has been the leading Czech Cross-Country skier.

For a long time during the course of last winter it seemed as if Czech veteran Jakub Janda will end his career after the season, now he has decided otherwise and will continue to jump.

The new 2015 Countdown Clock in Vail Village ticks off the days, hours, minutes and seconds until the best skiers converge on Colorado to compete at the Vail/Beaver Creek World Championships. Opening ceremonies kick off on February 2, 2015, the same day that the women take their first downhill training run on Raptor.

A freestyle skier of US Jennifer Hudak will take part in Park City Point 2 Point racing.

Norway’s Cross-Country queen and six-time Olympic Champion Marit Bjørgen was awarded the international prestigious Fair Play Mecenate award for 2014. On 23rd July, she received the award in Castiglion Fiorentino (ITA).

A concert of a band Bad Things took place in Moscow club “16 tonnes”.

The first Vice-Premier of the Government of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov stated that facilities of the Universiade in Krasnoyarsk will be finished in 2017 year.

President of SportAccord, Mr. Marius L. Vizer has announced today that the 2015 SportAccord Convention will be staged in Sochi, April/May next year (date to be announced soon).