Chika Yoshida, born 1970 in Tokyo, is now living in Innsbruck (AUT) for more than 20 years.

Justyna Kowalczyk of Poland had sharp pain in her knee during the sprint competitions last week in Drammen, Norway. As a result she ended her season early and opted for arthroscopic surgery to repair damaged meniscus.

Meribel France – At the World Cup Finals the action often gets as exciting off the slopes as on them and this year was no different.

Anders Bardal has decided to end his long and successful career in ski jumping.

In our interview series "FIS Ski Jumping-Talk" we present interviews with ski jumping athletes and officials. Today: Carina Vogt, World and Olympic Champion in ladies' ski jumping.

Severin Freund wrote a little piece of ski jumping history this weekend.

Spain's Carolina Ruiz Castillo announced her retirement from professional ski racing at the end of the season. In a press release of the Spanish Winter Sports Federation, the 33-year-old explained that the national championships from 29 to 31 of March in Baqueira-Beret (ESP), in the heart of the Pyrenees, will be her last races.

On Thursday morning, during a press conference held in St.Anton, Austrian slalom specialist Mario Matt announced his retirement from ski racing.

Few major cities around the world have ski and snowboard hills within 15 minutes of its centre and 20 minutes from a major international airport.

There couldn't be a better timing for Winterberg to celebrate its comeback on the FIS Alpine Snowboard World Cup tour after an absence of ten years as the last parallel slalom of a long season staged in the single run format on Saturday, March 14th, has it all with a bunch of riders battle for the title in the race for the crystal globes on the Poppenberg slope.