As the winter season has come to a close in almost all the ski resorts, our athletes are over with snow training. Some of them already enjoyed vacations at the beach, but others used the cold spring days to test new skis and extend/revise their contracts with the ski industry.

Ambitious and talented French skier Richard Jouve has made a big progress. The young man from Alpes-Provence sets himself no limits, wants to get better in classic technique to win one day Overall Sprint World Cup.

A new ski jumping center in Kandesteg (SUI) will celebrate its opening three months from now.

2015/2016 has been a tough season regarding athletes’ injuries, with over 30 severe injuries both on training days and on race days on the World Cup Tour, including former Overall World Cup winners Anna Veith (Fenninger), Aksel Lund Svindal, and Lindsey Vonn.

Next to Austrian team’s traditional season opening at the Stanglwirt in Tyrol, the team also presented a slightly changed training group structure to deal with the high number of athletes: next to the two existing training groups with World Cup and COC athletes, a third training group has been founded and will have a more regional focus.

Czech top Cross-Country Skier Eva Vrabcova Nyvltova has decided to have a break from Cross-Country Skiing to fully focus on athletics, having the marathon at the Olympic Games in Rio as a primary objective.

Severin Freund had an arthroscopic hip surgery on Wednesday in Munich (GER) and will now not be able to jump for a couple of months.

25-year-old alpine snowboarder Yvonne Schuetz from Switzerland calls it a day and retires from competitive snowboarding.

For the 2015/16 season a number of resorts have reported positive skier and snowboarder visitor results. 

Sweden's top skier Charlotte Kalla, Olympic, World and FIS Tour de Ski champion has decided to leave the national team to train independently.