The last training camp before the Olympic season of the main candidates for the Olympic team squad of Russia in parallel snowboard disciplines begins in Khanti-Mansiysk.

Reigning Olympic downhill champion Lindsey Vonn crashed Tuesday while training in Copper Mountain, Colo., ahead of her planned return to racing following major knee surgery.

This is to inform you that both snow controls for the men's and ladies' competitions in Lake Louise (CAN) and Beaver Creek (USA) were positive.

After participating in the Finlandia Veikkaus Cup in Roveniemi together with the nations of Finland, Poland, Belarus and Estonia, the Russian team has set its focus on the World Cup kickoff in Kuusamo. Head coach Dmitry Dubrovskiy summed up his conclusions after the race and also named the Russian starters for the Ruka Nordic Opening.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will retest frozen samples from previous Games after an improved testing method led to hundreds of positive cases that went undetected, according to a German television channel.

Tiger Woods is reportedly not planning on attending the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, to support his girlfriend, skier Lindsey Vonn, who was a downhill gold medalist in 2010.

A Moscow testing laboratory for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics will have its World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accreditation suspended unless it improves its procedures by 1 December.

The 10 km 15 km free technique competitions in Muonio, Finland went to Petr Sedov and Irina Khazova both of Russia. The previous two races had been swept by Justyna Kowalcyzk (POL) and Alexey Poltoranin (KAZ). Kowalczyk was a surprising 24th today and Poltoranin did not start.

Today, 15th November, the Russian national freestyle team in moguls returned to Moscow after a pre-season training camp which took place in Swiss Zermatt.

The first competitions of Europa Cup which were planned to take place in Austrian Shladming on 19th and 20th November are cancelled due to weather conditions.