Austria's Stefanie Moser picked up a knee injury while crashing in the downhill training run on Friday. The 26-year-old was transferred back to Austria for further medical examinations

Val d'Isère, France - As usual an opening press conference took place on Thursday afternoon.

After the Japanese Snowboard Team had stayed for a few weeks on the Pitztal glacier, the place where the most international teams trained end of November and beginning of December, the squad headed to the North for some additional winter preparation time. 

While also Quebec has kicked off its big air ramp construction work, Istanbul World Cup Organisers are almost there

Dominique Gisin was elected Swiss sportswoman of the year for the first time in her career on Sunday night in Zürich. 

Former Swiss Ski Team head coach Guri Hetland has been awarded the honour of Swiss Coach of the Year for her work with Dario Cologna during the 2013-2014 season.

A little bit later than expected it's time for the raceboarders to finally kick off things on the FIS Alpine Snowboard World Cup tour. Carezza, Italy will host the season's opening Parallel Giant Slalom (single run format) on the Pra di Tori slope on December 16th, 2014, being the prelude to an action packed racing week. 

Good news for ski jumping in Turkey. In the future, the young athletes of head coach Pekka Niemelae will be able to train in Erzurum again. 

After he was sidelined due to a sickness on the World Cup opening weekend, the great Magnus Moan was back in the game at the last competition weekend in Lillehammer.

Huge honor for Peter Prevc: He was voted "Athlete of the Year" in Slovenia for the second consecutive year.