The Bring Children to the Snow Campaign has developed into a year-round project.

Tomas Portyk is not having a comfortable summer at all, as he tells on the website of the Czech Ski Association. For the young Nordic Combined athlete who’s talent definitely lies in ski jumping, the summer equals „training hell“ as he is trying to push his limits in the cross-country part.

Also after the end of his career in ski jumping, Thomas Morgenstern still wants the challenge of a competition: He was recently participating in the 15th Helicopter World Championships in Poland.

On Thursday, the reigning Olympic PSL champion fell from the training tool and suffered a luxation of her right elbow.

Up until now, summer training took place on the European glaciers for the German alpine teams: the Stilfser Joch, Saas-fee and the Mölltal glacier offered excellent training conditions but in mid-August the different teams are headed overseas.

A „minor setback“ for Lindsey Vonn: After a training crash in which the American sustained an injury to her ankle, she had to quit her training camp in New Zealand and is headed back the the USA.

Park City, Utah will have two rather than three ski areas next winter and one of them will now be the biggest ski area in the USA.

Six Athlete Role Models from the FIS disciplines will support the young athletes going to the 2nd Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer which take place from 12th- 21st February 2016:

Together with the European Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (FESI), Atomic, Blizzard, Elan, Fischer, Head, Nordica, Salomon, Tecnica, Tyrolia, Marker and Völkl, FIS has developed Manufacturers Kids Demos. The Demos are designed to provide equipment for event Organisers to help participants enjoy snow sports.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced the list of 15 Athlete Role Models (ARMs) who will support the young athletes going to the second Winter Youth Olympic Games from 12 to 21 February 2016 in Lillehammer, Norway.