Ski-jumper Severin Freund welcomed the World Cup back to action with open arms, claiming victory in Falun, Sweden.

Yesterday, 25 February, in Falun (Sweden) the 15-th World Cup in ski jumping began.

The alpine skier from Lichtenstein Tina Weirather who injured her leg during a training at the Olympic Games Sochi-2014 announced the end of the season.

Austrian ski jumper Thomas Morgenstern will skip the remaining 10 World Cup events this season in order to rest after recovering in time from a ski flying crash to compete at the Sochi Olympics.

KITZBUEHEL, Austria – In a rather surprising turnaround of events, Didier Defago became the winner of the 2014 Kitzbuehel super-G.

Eric Frenzel has also claimed the victory in the last Individual Gundersen competition before the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.

Defending Olympic champion Alex Bilodeau reminded everyone of his talents ahead of the 2014 Winter Games as he won a World Cup moguls event in Lake Placid.

As expected, conditions changed as the evening went on. It started snowing right before the second run. After an outstanding first run, Mikaela Shiffrin stayed focused and raced to the seventh World Cup slalom victory in her young career. She logged a combined time of 1:45.83, 0.83 ahead of runner-up Frida Hansdotter (SWE), while Maria Piatilae-Holmner took third, 1.14 seconds off the pace.

Athletes of national cross-country skiing teams of Belorussia and Ukraine prepare for the Olympic Games Sochi-2014 in the sports complex “Malinovka” in Arkhangelsk region.

The World Champion-2011 underwent surgery after hand injury, which she got in Austrian Bad Gastein.