According to a webstory on www.bbc.co.uk, 2014 Olympic slopestyle Bronze medallist Jenny Jones (GBR) will start a new radio show on BBC Radio 5 live on Thursday, October 23. 

Matthias Mayer, the Austrian downhill Olympic Champion from Sochi 2014 has suffered a has suffered a medial ligament tear in his right knee and a bruised spine after a fall earlier today during giant slalom training on the Pitztal Glacier. Mayer will not be at the start of the World Cup Opener in Soelden. 

The meetings and presentations are finished and now it is full speed ahead for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, as Falun (SWE) was given the green light from the FIS Coordination Group following the Final Inspection on Monday 12th and Tuesday, 13th October 2014.

Finnish sporting goods and textiles company YOKO has entered into a significant partnership with US Ski Team member and 2013 World Champion Kikkan Randall.

Over the past 20 years, the FIS Snowboard World Cup has traveled the world several times. While it all kicked off with nine venues on three different continents in the inaugural season, two more have been added to the map in the years after.

2014 probably started with a lot of soul-searching for French superstar Jason Lamy Chappuis. After an Olympics not to his taste and a - for his standards - also rather mediocre performance in the World Cup, the question was there: staying or quitting? In this edition of TUESDAY TALK, the 28-year-old spoke about his decision to go on, the goals still left on his agenda and his ideas for a future after Nordic Combined.

Little bit more than a month is left until the start of the new FIS Cross-Country World Cup season but a few athletes are coping with injuries.

Veteran Bernhard Gruber has been the dominating athlete at the Austrian nationals on the large and normal hill the past Thursday and this Sunday but behind the 32-year-old, the podium spots were up for grabs among the youngsters of the team. Thursday’s competition at Bergisel, Innsbruck and Seefeld had Gruber on one, ahead of Harald Lemmerer and Alexander Brandner and today’s event at Tschagguns and Partenen saw a podium with Gruber ahead of 18-year-old Bernhard Flaschberger and Lukas Greiderer.

Czech Cross-Country skiing star Lukas Bauer confirmed he would not start in the the 9th edition of the FIS Tour de Ski. The triple Olympic Games medalist and the FIS Tour de Ski winner from 2008 and 2010 decided to focus solely on the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun in February 2015.

It has been more than ten years, that one of the strongest raceboard nations has hosted two different events in one season.