Satu Kalajainen (FIN) is the chair of the FIS Sub-Committee for Cross-Country Youth and Children’s Questions which consists of 18 members. In today’s FIS Newsflash, she talks about the work of the Committee, the future of Cross-Country Skiing and her role as a FIS SnowKidz judge.

Representatives from ski jumping clubs from all over the country recently met in Falun, host city of the last Nordic Ski World Championships, in order to develop strategies on how to lead this sport in Sweden to a positive future.

Former Alpine World Cup skier Marco Büchel (LIE) earlier this month joined Christoph Kunz (SUI, two-time Paralympic Champion monoski) and Anna Schaffelhuber (GER, five-time Paralympic Champion monoski) on a trip to Uganda as part of their roles as Right to Play Ambassadors.

The FIS representatives were in Canada from 13th-18th August 2015 to inspect the venues that are set to host Ski Tour Canada 2016 Cross-Country Skiing events in Gatineau, Montréal, Québec City, and Canmore from 1st-12th March 2016.

From 23rd – 24th August the Norwegian Ski Federation (NSF), Olympiatoppen and Trondheim municipality are going to host a seminar for World Cup coaches.

FIS Newsflash sat down with Karl-Heinz Lickert (GER) to talk about the Sub-Committee for Rules and Control and the development of Cross-Country Skiing.

Internationally regarded as one of the world’s most inclusive five snow sports events, Audi quattro Winter Games New Zealand attracts the world’s elite winter sports athletes including many Olympic medallists and World Champions in Freestyle Skiing, Snowboarding, Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing and Curling.

The shaping crew has done a great job in the Big Bucks Terrain Park putting together a decent course for this season's Slopestyle World Cup opener.

A nice side story from the Grand Prix in Courchevel (FRA).

FIS is publishing yearly statistics on in-competition and out-of-competition doping controls based on a seasonal overview, it is interesting to take a look at the overall doping control numbers in the FIS disciplines in the report prepared by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) which includes doping controls conducted by various Anti-Doping organisations.