Some of Canada’s top halfpipe athletes had the unique and exciting opportunity to participate in two training camps with Cirque du Soleil this summer in Quebec.

As the racers want to perform well at the first World Cup race of the season which actually is staged on home turf, world champion Andrea Limbacher and Co. moved from the Stubai to the Pitztal glacier.

Harri Olli is confident, that the second season after his comeback will be more successful for him than the last winter, when a 30th place in a ski flying event in Vikersund was his best result.

Bad news for the Italian team: Samuel Costa will have to sit the first competitions of the season out due to an injury to his left knee.

The slopestyle Europa Cup opener scheduled in SnowWorld Landgraaf, Holland on November 4th and 5th, 2015, is expected to be a record-breaking event.

Last winter, the Swiss alpine snowboard team underlined its strength again successfully tying on to the great 2014 Sochi Winter Games results with rising star Julie Zogg leading the way.

Since October is normally the month were the most teams get into the real on-snow mode in their preparation for the next season, Germany's snowboard cross squad has travelled a bit to the South to get in shape for the first competitions of the coming 2015-16 winter.

It was a perfect way to kick off the Audi FIS World Cup season: a tight race, a great winner, an amazing crowd and blue sky to enhance it all.

French head coach Jerome Laheurte is one step closer to nominating his four athletes for the first World Cup stages in Scandinavia, as Nordic Magazine reports. At the end of a training camp in Oberhof, two internal test event were held after which the coaching staff named six athletes to travel to Scandinavia and fight for the four quota places of the French team.

No big surprises at the Italian national championships in Val di Fiemme today: team number one Alessandro Pittin took home the tenth title of his career by beating our Lukas Runggaldier clearly with 41.6 seconds after one jump on Predazzo’s HS 106 hill and a 10-kilometre roller-ski event.