On 28th April, Roland Fischnaller and Aaron March of the Italian race board team, along with Austrian veteran Siegfried Grabner and Italy's parallel coach Erich Pramsohler set off on the bike ride from Fischnaller's home town of Villnoes (ITA) to Sochi (RUS).

In less than two weeks, the FIS Calendar Conference 2013 will take place in the tried and tested FIS meeting venue of Cavtat-Dubrovnik (CRO) starting on Monday, 3rd June 2013.

Pre-season training camps of the Russian national Cross-Country Skiing team begin.

The C.E.O. of the company “Panorama” Vasiliy Kiknadze talks about the specifics of TV-broadcasting of Olympic Games-2014 at Sochi. 

The leader of the Canadian national Cross-Country skiing team Chandra Crawford decided to go for personal preparation for the season under coaching of Peter Larsson.

The leader of the Czech national Cross Country skiing team Lukas Bauer changes his plans of training with Russian Aleksander Legkov and Ilya Chernousov.

Livio Magoni, the coach of the winner of the World Cup in alpine skiing Slovenian Tina Maze, signed a contract with the Alpine Skiing Federation of Italy.

Today, 21 May, is the first day of visit of FIS representatives, which will inspect the level of preparation for the Olympic competitions in freestyle skiing and snowboard at Extreme Park “Rosa Khutor”.

NAZRAN, May 19 (Itar-Tass) - Leila Albogachiyeva, the first female mountain climber in the history of the North Caucasian region of Ingushetia, has completed a climb to the top of Mount Everest, which is 8,848 meters high, an official spokesperson for the government of Ingushetia told Itar-Tass.

The winner of the World Cup in sprint skiing Sweden skier Emil Jonsson shared his expectations about the Olympic Games.