The first step for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti (FIN) has been made with the first Coordination Group meeting, which took place there on 19th and 20th September 2013.

Lydia Lassila recently became a member of the FIS Athletes’ Commission. 

The FIS Technical Committee Meetings are just around the corner and will take place at the traditional location of the Hotel Hilton Zurich Airport (SUI) from 2nd-5th October. 

FIS Alpine World and Continental Cup technical staff from 2014 appointed.

Over the summer, the FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup and World Championships Organisers were busy upgrading competition courses and infrastructure to prepare the slopes for the coming season.

It was a big week for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), with three major decisions at last finalised when the IOC Session met in Buenos Aries, Argentina. 

The top roller skiers have gathered in Bad Peterstal in the Black Forest of Germany for the Rollerski World Championships 2013 which run from 3rd – 8th September. 

The Nordic Combined Summer Grand Prix 2013 is history and now it's time to look ahead and prepare for a new winter season.

After a successful meeting between FIS Chief Race Directors Guenter Hujara and Atle Skaardal and representatives of the Austrian Ski Association on September 3rd, the proposal for Innsbruck to host a Nations Team Event this upcoming February has been confirmed.

With the start of the Olympic season just around the corner in addition to the upcoming IOC Session in September, it has been a busy summer for FIS President Gian Franco Kasper. FIS Newsflash took a moment to sit down with him to look ahead to the exciting future. In the first part of the two-part series, Kasper talks about Sochi and the Olympic movement.