An opening of skiing season took place in “Rosa Khutor”.

With record prize money of about CHF 315 000, and a new jackpot-rule for the winner of the qualifications, the 4-Hills-Tournament enters a new dimension this winter. The organizers announced that the traditional ski jumping series (December 28th to January 6th) will award a prize money of € 2 000 to the winner of the qualification round.

About 20 billion rubles was spent on Krasnaya Polyana for preparing to Olympic Games Sochi-2014 and it will be ready by the end of December.

The FIS Nordic Combined and Alpine Skiing World Cups results.

This was supposed to be the 21st and last season for Jan Tischhauser, 63, as FIS Race Director for the ladies speed events before he retires from the position.

The building of the residence of Father Christmas is being finished in the Olympic Park of Sochi near the hockey-center “Iceberg”.

Today, 13th December, competitions in Alpine Skiing and Nordic Combined will take place in Trentino.

The Organizing Committee Sochi-2014 published the official guide with information for spectators which will help to plan a trip.

In Lausanne (Switzerland) a meeting of the Executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) took place.

The inspection visit of a delegation of independent experts of European Union, which evaluated the anti-doping policy of Russian, finished.