Snowboard halfpipe sensation Kim started on a snowboard when she was four years old and started competing at six being part of Team Mountain High out of California.

Due to the recent mild temperatures in Central Europe, the Audi FIS Ski Cross World Cup in Tegernsee (GER) on 20th - 21st February has been postponed. FIS, together with the German Ski Federation, is currently looking for an alternate date later in the season to stage the competitions.

With two years to go until the Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang 2018 (KOR), the men's Audi FIS Ski World Cup events in Jeongseon this week will serve as the first official test events for all of the sports on the Olympic Winter Games programme.

On 28th January 2016, a Conference on Sports Concussions was organised by the AISTS Master of Sports Administration programme in Lausanne (SUI).

Patrizia Kummer truly is what you can call the most dominating racer of the FIS Alpine Snowboard World Cup tour of the past years.

It is no secret that Eric Frenzel is one of the superstars of the discipline of Nordic Combined and has to be named in a row with the biggest of the big names of the ultimate winter athletes like Hannu Manninen, Ronny Ackermann, Bjarte Engen Vik, Felix Gottwald or Kenji Ogiwara but with yesterday’s third TRIPLE title in Seefeld, Eric Frenzel has made himself immortal in the annals of the sport

The worst case scenario has been realized. The 44th edition of the German Worldloppet, König Ludwig Lauf on the 6th and 7th of February has been cancelled.

As has been the case for so many events across the various FIS disciplines this season, challenging weather conditions in Europe have forced yet another schedule change, this time to the Audi FIS Ski Cross World Cup originally slated to take place on February 6, 2016.

The FIS Development Programme Nordic Training Camp for Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined was staged in Villach (AUT) and Planica (SLO) from 14th-23th January 2016.

Olympic downhill Champion Bill Johnson (USA) passed away on 21st January 2016 at the age of 55.