The Russian Cross-Country team around Olympic champion Alexander Legkov has grown larger.

The final push is on for the seven candidates to host the FIS World Championships in 2018/2019. Four Nordic, two Alpine and one Freestyle Skiing/Snowboarding Candidates made their final presentations to the FIS Council on 3rd June 2014.

The FIS Athletes‘ Commission held its annual meeting yesterday, 2nd June. With the news just coming in the day before that the Council had granted an observer position to the Athletes Commission, a primary goal of the Commission was reached.

The Russian Ski Association takes active part in this 49th FIS Congress. It’s delegation is leaded by the President of the Freestyle Federation of Russia Andrey Bokarev.

The FIS Council held its first meeting at the 2014 FIS Congress all day on Monday, 2nd June with the primary focus on preparing for Friday’s Congress.

This will be the fourth time that the Royal Spanish Winter Sports Federation has welcomed the FIS bi-annual gathering, this time to a city which has a reputation as a top sporting metropolis.

In May 2012 the Mexican National Ski Association made the first steps in requesting the change of nationality and consequent change of FIS license for American skier Sarah Schleper de Gaxiola.

The FIS Council held its first meeting at the 2014 FIS Congress all day on Monday, 2nd June with the primary focus on preparing for Friday’s Congress.

Today, 2th June, a joint session of a board of the Ministry of sport of Russia and an advisory group of the President’s Council dedicated to development of sports in Russia took place.

FIS Snowboard Race Director Uwe Beier took a moment to reflect on the past winter including the debut of Snowboard slopestyle at the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games, and look ahead to the future.