There are some goals for Anders Bardal next season, but one is right on top of his list: Gold in the team competition at the World Championships in Falun. 

FIS Cross-Country recently caught up with Norway's Eirik Brandsdal during the team's altitude training camp in Val Senales, Italy. Brandsdal is coming off a career best sprint season in 2014 where he finished second in the overall Sprint rankings. 

Kazakh Evgeni Levgin has been in a wheel chair since a serious car accident in November 2012, in which he suffered an injury of his cervical spine. 

Bjoergen has been coming to Val Senales, Italy for 15 years and as she enters her 16th year on the FIS World Cup tour she is still motivated and focused on her pursuit of excellence. Bjoergen's Norwegian team coach Egil Kristiansen is impressed by what he has seen from the skiing star during a mix of high intensity intervals on snow and interspersed roller skiing. 

After fracturing her tibia and fibula last January, Andrea Dettling should have been comfortably on the way to recovery, but instead of spending the beginning of November preparing for the season the Swiss speed specialist has undergone additional surgery in St.Moritz this Wednesday. 

The French alpine snowboarding team led by 2014 PSL World Cup title winner Sylvain Dufour will head to North America on November 3rd to enter its final preparation phase for the new season. 

Robin Duvillard will celebrate his 31st birthday on December 22 and will start in a few weeks his 7th season on the World Cup. Since his inception in 2008 on World Cup he has taken the to learn his craft. 

With the second place in the overall World Cup and Silver and Bronze at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Peter Prevc was one of the best ski jumpers last winter. These successes obviously changed the public's expectations for the future, a fact that he is very aware of. 

Jessica Lindell-Vikarby had an incredible 2013/2014 season. After scoring her first giant slalom win on the Birds of Prey in Beaver Creek on 1st December 2013, she led the GS standings until the Finals in Lenzerheide.

Canadian Erik Guay, the 2011 downhill world champion and super G season title winner in 2010, has had a rough fight to return to form in time for marquee events over the past two years.