Daniel Andre Tande will return to the Norwegian team for the upcoming FIS Grand Prix in Hakuba (JPN) next weekend.

The big Summer Grand Prix finals have had their home in Oberstdorf for the last couple of years and have always included at least one victory of local hero Johannes Rydzek in the last five of them.

Following an invitation of the Georgian Government, FIS Race Director visited the traditional winter sports resort of Bakuriani this week, where a ski jumper center shall be built over the next years.

This hill inauguration did not go as planned for Swiss Nordic Combined ahtlete Tim Hug.

The Norges Cup had its second weekend of action in Trondheim on the past weekend and team youngster Jarl Riiber presented himself in excellent summer shape.

Zoe Gillings-Brier is expecting her first baby in a couple of weeks and will therefore miss the up-coming winter season. However, she wants to compete at the PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games.

It was two victories in a row for Austrian Lisa Eder in the first Ladies’ Nordic Combined events in the Alpencup series in Klingenthal and Bischofsgrün in the past week.

One of the most successful Nordic Combined athlete of all times, Finn Hannu Manninen, might be seen at the competition arenas in the next season. Manninen has activated his FIS-code and shortened his qualifying period to three months in preparation for a possible comeback

As summer goes on, more athletes chose to end their career as professional ski racers and announce their retirement.

After 11 years of competing in FIS Cross-Country World Cup Italy's Roland Clara has decided to end his racing career.