Calle Halfvarsson began the season in the best way including two World Cup victories before the New Year and possession of the yellow bib associated with leading in the overall World Cup standings.

During a backcountry snowboard trip on Saturday, March 25, Olympic bronze medalist Mark McMorris sustained several injuries including a fractured jaw, fractured left arm, ruptured spleen, a stable pelvic fracture, rib fractures and a collapsed left lung, according to Canada Snowboard Team Physician, Doctor Rodney J. French.

The 2016-17 FIS alpine snowboard World Cup season closed out in Winterberg today with a PSL team event staged on the Poppenberg slope in pouring rain again.

The last competition of the 2016/17 Continental Cup season could also not take place on the large hill due to the wind conditions and so the event had to be moved to the normal hill in Chaikovsky (RUS) again, like already on Saturday.

2014 Olympic halfpipe champion Iouri Podladtchikov, who had just earned snowboard halfpipe Silver at the Sierra Nevada 2017 Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships has suffered a severe injury in his right knee.

The Audi FIS Ski World Cup Finals week for Alpine Skiing is on the horizon in the U.S. resort of Aspen, where the best 25 ladies and men and the newly-crowned junior world champions will race the last competitions of the 2016/17 World Cup season

“I really don’t know what to say anymore” has almost become Johannes Rydzek’s default answer after racking up four gold medals in four starts at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in the past two weeks and truly, what the 25-year-old achieved in this winter is difficult to describe in words. 

While the freestyle skiers will leave their first marks in Sierra Nevada tomorrow, it's finally time for the snowboarders to take over centre stage with the slopestyle qualifiers being the first event of the 12th FIS Snowboard World Championships on Thursday, March 9.

The Vuokatti-Ruka Sports Academy is looking for a Ski Jumping/Nordic Combined coach to be a part of our team and to work with talented high school age athletes.

Johanne Killi (NOR) and Maggie Voisin (USA) as well as Andri Ragettli (SUI), Gus Kenworthy (USA), McRae Williams (USA) and Henrik Harlaut (SWE) have tooped their respective heats at the qualifications for the final World Cup stop of the season staged at Silvaplana's Corvatsch Park.