After a successful meeting between FIS Chief Race Directors Guenter Hujara and Atle Skaardal and representatives of the Austrian Ski Association on September 3rd, the proposal for Innsbruck to host a Nations Team Event this upcoming February has been confirmed.

With the start of the Olympic season just around the corner in addition to the upcoming IOC Session in September, it has been a busy summer for FIS President Gian Franco Kasper. FIS Newsflash took a moment to sit down with him to look ahead to the exciting future. In the first part of the two-part series, Kasper talks about Sochi and the Olympic movement. 

Norway’s Tiril Sjaastad Christiansen and USA’s Nick Goepper from USA won the ladies and men’s events at the FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup slopestyle in Cardrona, New Zealand. It was the grand finale of this year’s Audi Quattro Winter Games NZ.

Today FIS released details about the design of the slopestyle course to be used during the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games. 

At the most recent Executive Board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) held on 9th August 2013 in Moscow (RUS), the proposed 2016 Lillehammer Winter Youth Olympic Games Programme was on the agenda. 

Preparations are quietly yet industriously progressing at POCOG, the Organising Committee for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang (KOR). 

On 1st July 2014 registration for the 3rd edition of World Snow Day (19th January 2014) was launched. In the short space of six weeks, 23 Organisers in 14 countries have already registered for the next event.

Fred-Børre Lundberg, the Nordic Combined legend from Bardu (NOR) dominated the sport in the 1990’s. 

What are the world’s top Alpine athletes doing in summer? For those whose passion and profession revolves around skiing and snow, summer is when most teams put in the hard work. While some have already left for the southern hemisphere to train in winter conditions, others are skiing on Europe’s glaciers.

Following the Olympic Results Information Service (ORIS) homologation testing of the systems in Sochi (RUS) in early July 2013, the FIS Freestyle Skiing and Snowboard staff met with experts of the Sochi 2014 Organising Committee for another site inspection.