Lake Louise, Canada – Switzerland's Lara Gut edged USA's Lindsey Vonn on Sunday to win the first World Cup super-G race of the season.

Veteran Thomas Zangerl (AUT) and reigning crystal globe winner and Olympic champion Marielle Thompson (CAN) claimed victories at the season-opening Audi ski cross World Cup in Nakiska, Canada, on Saturday.

What a way to kick off the contest winter! A blue bird sky and a perfectly shaped superpipe at Copper Mountain, CO. provided an outstanding playground for the top six ladies and ten men of Thursdays qualifiers to showcase their tricks in style and battle for the glory at this season's first Halfpipe World Cup.

Local hero Mikko Kokslien has claimed the top position in today’s second Individual Gundersen race in Lillehammer.

Marit Bjoergen of Norway hung on to win her 5th consecutive mini-tour to start the World Cup season. 

Martin Johnsrud Sundby has captured his 4th consecutive Tour victory. 

Lake Louise, Canada – USA's Lindsey Vonn celebrated her comeback onto the World Cup tour with a victory in Saturday's downhill race. She clocked a time of 1:50.48 to lead an American clean sweep of the podium, with teammate Stacey Cook in second place, 0.49 seconds off the pace and Julia Mancuso in third, 0.57 seconds out.

Lot's of news from the Worldloppet. Tartu celebrates 55th anniversary, Jizerská adds a new race distance and Marcialonga Science project aims to evaluate and measure the impact of the double poling technique on muscles, fibres and heart of some athletes during and after the event, scheduled on 25 January 2015. 

With two Individual Gundersen competitions at the Norwegian venue of Lillehammer, the fight for the yellow World Cup leader bib is now on in earnest this upcoming weekend.

It's the fourth time in a row now, the world's best raceboarders will travel to South Tyrol to compete in the winter sport resort of Carezza.