It was announced today on skiforbundet.no and on his Instagram account, that Niklas Dyrhaug - World Championship bronze medalist in the 15 km classic at Lahti 2017 - would delay the start of his ski season until the Lillehammer weekend due to a lower back injury. 

Stefan Baumeister has been named Rider of the Year yesterday during the traditional season's opening press conference of Snowboard Germany.

While winter is arriving in central Europe and in North America, Lapland has been enjoying winter conditions for a few weeks now and Levi will host a ladies’ and an men’s slalom this week-end, on 11th and 12th November

Daniela Iraschko-Stolz had to undergo knee surgery on Monday for the second time this year and will, therefore, be forced to take a break from training for the upcoming weeks.

Italian hopeful Samuel Costa will not be able to go after top results in this Olympic season. The 24-year-old has been struggling with knee injuries for a long time and the process to get healthy and fully functional again did not go as planned.

For the first time in recent years, a majority of members of the AIJS decided to elect an American ski star as the recipient of the ‘Skieur d’Or- AIJS Trophy Serge Lang’ Award to be presented at Soelden on Friday Oct.27th – 2017 in occasion of the Forum Alpinum to USA’s wondergirl Mikaela Shiffrin.

During slalom training in Pitztal, Austria, on 22 October, Slovenian World Cup star Ilka Stuhec suffered a severe knee injury following a fall.

Marielle Thompson, the reigning Olympic champion and number one ranked female ski cross athlete in the world, has suffered a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) in training.

With the second ever Big Air and the City just around the corner, Local Organisers have now opened up the ticket sale for this season's second FIS Big Air World Cup event.