Babs Barnhoorn and Niek van der Velden claimed victory at the season's Europa Cup kick off in Landgraaf, Netherlands which took place Nov 27th. 

LAKE LOUISE, Canada – It’s finally time for the first speed events of the season and Lake Louise is in prime shape this year

As part of the traditional FIS Nordic Opening, Cross-Country Skiing, Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined will come togetherfrom 28th - 30th November 2014 in Ruka (FIN). 

Team rosters for Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia and France for opening World Cup weekend in Ruka, Finland. 

Roman Koudelka won the first individual competition of the new season. With jumps on 138 m and 139.5 m the Czech, who already won the qualification on Friday, scored a total of 276.4 points. Austrian Stefan Kraft and Andreas Wellinger of Germany followed in second and third. 

The German ski jumpers took a home win at the opener of the new World Cup season in Klingenthal. Markus Eisenbichler, Richard Freitag, Andreas Wellinger and Severin Freund won with a total of 1098.0 points ahead of Japan (1068.9 points) and Norway (1061.2 points). 

With the start of the FIS World Cup 2014-15 season just 9 days away many National ski teams will get their competitive seasons started this coming weekend. 

Young Austrian Paul Gerstgraser has captured the win in the first snow competition held in Rovaniemi, Finland today

Poland's Justyna Kowalczyk was yet again on top of the podium for the second time in two days

Finnish Biathlete Kaisa Makarainen and Russian ski Alexey Chervotkin have won the final day of competition in Olos, Finland.