Triple Freestyle Ski World Champion, Olympian and President of the Lausanne 2020 Organising Committee Virginie Faivre was the most qualified person on the mountain to guide and introduce 300 school children from the Lausanne area to the sport of skiing.

Finnish Ski Jumping legend Matti Nykaenen passed away last night at the age of 55.

The votes are in and the world’s sports media have selected the highest achieving men, ladies and teams over the past calendar year as the nominees for the 2019 Laureus World Sports Awards, one of the world’s pre-eminent international sports awards.

Defending Overall champion Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) became the first athlete – male or female – to win in all six individual disciplines currently contested on the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup circuit by claiming her career-first victory in super-G at Lake Louise (CAN) on Sunday.

Lapland is what we imagine as “winter wonderland”. 

This weekend, on November 17th and 18th, the 2018/19 Viessmann Ski Jumping World Cup season will kick-off in Wisla (POL).

Starting this season, FIS and FIS Academy are partnering with the Chinese Ski Association to launch the new Get into Snow Sports GISS-China programme to attract newcomers to snow sports and provide a high level, enjoyable learning experience.

FIS was deeply saddened to learn about the tragic death of 24-year-old Swiss downhill skier Gian Luca Barandun in a paragliding accident.

The first northern hemisphere competition of the 2018/19 FIS Snowboard season took to the skies above Italy on Saturday, as the inaugural Modena Skipass big air World Cup saw Japan’s Reira Iwabuchi and Takeru Otsuka claim impressive wins in front of a massive crowd at the Skipass festival’s 25th anniversary bash.

That better way to celebrate 100 days until the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Are (SWE) than at the 2018-2019 season opening races in Soelden (AUT).