After careful consideration, Finnish athlete Eetu Vähäsöyrinki has announced today that he will end his career - in spite of the home World Championships in Lahti that are coming up in 2017.

The city of Oslo, Norway, voted this week to approve funding towards hosting a winter X Games event in 2016.

After his surprising decision to take a year off from ski jumping, Canadian Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes has now decided to return to the sport next season.

For the first time since 1999, the Alaska Cross-Country Ski Hall of Fame will induct skiers, coaches and trail builders to their coveted halls at Kincaid Park, Alaska

Good news for many ski jumping fans all over the world: At age 42, veteran Noriaki Kasai is still not seriously considering to end his career.

The season 2014/15 has seen many Nordic Combined veterans retire - this will not be the case for Norway’s Haavard Klemetsen.

It is post season and some time has passed since Bernhard Gruber’s tour de force in Falun which ended in the first-ever Austrian individual gold medal at World Championships.

One of the greatest Canadian freestyle skiers of all time, Jennifer Heil, was honoured with an induction into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame on April 22, 2015.

After 11 years of dating, slalom champion and record holder Marlies Schild and Olympic gold medalist and world champion Benjamin Raich got married in a civil ceremony on Saturday surrounded by immediate family. Schild has adopted Raich’s surname as a result of the union.

Over the course of four years, World Snow Day has had in excess of 1.7 million participants.