With the German dominance of the 2016/17 season still unbroken, it does not come as a big surprise that our current Athlete of the Week is a German again: Fabian Rießle.

Both FIS Snow Controllers, Alan Johnson and Matthew T. Pauli have given green light for the FIS Junior World Championships in Park City, USA.

Kitzbühel’s Hahnenkamm event at Kitzbühel is not the oldest ‘Ski Classic’ on the Alpine circuit yet for sure one of the most prestigious competitions to win! 

Yuki Ito won the first individual competition of the FIS World Cup Ladies Ski Jumping in Zao (JPN). The local hero got for her jumps to 89,5 and 94,0 meters 213,6 points. That gave her an advantage of 0,3 points on Manuela Malsiner of Italy, who surprisingly finished second. Third place went to Russia´s Irina Avvakumova.

FIS member National Ski Associations can still submit their candidacy to host the 52^nd International Ski Congress in 2020. The application deadline is 31^st March 2017.

The 51^st International Ski Congress will be held from 13^th to 19^th May 2018 in Costa Navarino (GRE).

With a successful World Cup opener in the books, the fastest snowboarders on the planet have descended on Solitude (USA) for the 2016-17 snowboard cross World Cup season's second stop.

Too much snowfall on course forced the cancellation of Thursday's downhill training run for the ladies at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria, and a similar fate struck the plan on Friday. Despite workers clearing the course in time for Friday's training run, heavy snowfall picked up just before racers' inspection and continued throughout the day.

Due to the strong wind, low visibility and continuing snowfall especially in the higher sections of the ski cross course in Watles (ITA), the qualifications for both Saturday's and Sunday's races had to be cancelled.