It will be no surgery for Magnus Moan after all, as was decided in a meeting with the Norwegian team doctor, Petter Olberg, at Trondheim today. Moan had been having problems with pain in his heel and achilles tendon for years but was able to train normally in the last few seasons. A new MRT earlier this week showed a stress fracture of the heel bone. 

Germany’s best technical racer, Felix Neureuther, will skip the World Cup season opener in Soelden, Austria, in order to focus on the first slalom of the season in Levi, Finland. 

Christoph Wahrstötter, member of the Austrian Ski Cross team, suffered a meniscus fracture in his left knee crashing in a training run on the Pitztal glacier. As if that wouldn't have been enough, the 25-year-old skier of the national squad also tore his ACL.

Iivo Niskanen aims high next season and looks for victory in 50 km at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun 2015. 

Simon Ammann won the Swiss National Championships for the fourth time in a row. 

Severin Freund and Carina Vogt were awarded the "Golden Ski" by the German Ski Association (DSV). 

Aksel Lund Svindal ruptured his left Achilles tendon during a physical training session in Sölden, Austria, Saturday afternoon. 

Last December, just before American cross-country skiing star Kikkan Randall turned 31, her teammates gave her a birthday present: a scavenger hunt. The trek took her across one of the Alps’ most beautiful valleys in Davos, Switzerland, where she was training for the Sochi Olympics.

Already for the fifth time amateur Cross-Country skiers will have a unique chance to live the emotional Final Climb of Tour de Ski in front of more than 20.000 spectators, a few minutes before the great World Cup athletes.