Monday, 20th January, the Prime-Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitriy Medvedev holds a meeting on governmental support of participants of the Olympics.

Eric Frenzel made Nordic Combined history and added another big title to his growing collection of achievements. The German was uncontested in the traditional Nordic Combined event with two jumps and 15 kilometres of cross-country skiing.

hristy Prior (NZL) and Maxence Parrot (CAN) clinched the penultimate slopestyle competition of the 2014 FIS Snowboard Freestyle World Cup tour which took place in Stoneham, Canada, today.

With his first win in the World Cup, Andreas Wellinger prevented the triumph of Kamil Stoch in front of his home crowd in Wisla. Behind the 18-year-old German and the World Champion of Poland, Michael Hayboeck of Austria finished on a career best third place.

The Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, who recently plays at Australian Open Championship, gives some details of her work in Sochi.

Lindsey Vonn says she had successful surgery on her right knee, posting a photo of herself snuggling with her adopted dog, Leo, on her Facebook page Wednesday.

Defending Olympic champion Alex Bilodeau reminded everyone of his talents ahead of the 2014 Winter Games as he won a World Cup moguls event in Lake Placid.

The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed an order for organization of the Universiade in Krasnoyarsk-2019.

As expected, conditions changed as the evening went on. It started snowing right before the second run. After an outstanding first run, Mikaela Shiffrin stayed focused and raced to the seventh World Cup slalom victory in her young career. She logged a combined time of 1:45.83, 0.83 ahead of runner-up Frida Hansdotter (SWE), while Maria Piatilae-Holmner took third, 1.14 seconds off the pace.

Athletes of national cross-country skiing teams of Belorussia and Ukraine prepare for the Olympic Games Sochi-2014 in the sports complex “Malinovka” in Arkhangelsk region.