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A squad of 20 from Great Britain is heading to the 2025 Winter European Youth Olympic Festival in Georgia next month.  The athletes will be among 1,600 from 48 countries. NEW

There’s a big programme of sporting action for GB skiers and snowboarders over the next 7 days, including two men’s slalom World Cups and the X Games in Aspen, Colorado. We have the full calendar and all the recent results. NEW

Eight male and six female athletes have been selected across six Alpine disciplines. It is the largest British Team selected for an Alpine World Championships in recent history.

The first World Cup competitions of 2025 have taken place and there’s already been a victory for GB. But there’s much more action for GB skiers and snowboarders coming up over the next week. 

The 17-year-old gave another brilliant display of Big Air snowboarding to win the Klagenfurt World Cup in Austria on Sunday.  That’s two in row for the teenager.

Check out the GB Snowsport athletes competing at FIS competition events in the coming week and in week commencing 30 January, as well as World Cup results from last week.

Zoe Atkin in the Freeski Halfpipe and Jaz Taylor in Telemark have secured two World Cup podiums. It follows on from earlier GB medal success. NEW

The top podium spots for GB Snowsport athletes came in Telemark and Para Alpine races. It’s a great start to the season for Britain’s most successful skier, Jasmin Taylor, and for Neil Simpson with his guide, Rob Poth.

GB athletes scheduled to compete for GB Snowsport at FIS competition events in the coming week and World Cup results from last week.

The International Ski & Snowboard Federation, FIS, has rejected a $420m proposal from CVC Capital Partners. Nearly 60 athletes, executives & FIS council members have urged a re-think.

The 40-year-old American legend is back on the World Cup circuit. She has a wildcard entry after racing a Downhill and a Super G in Colorado and skiing as a forerunner in Beaver Creek. UPDATED

The Snowboard Cross World Cup season gets underway this weekend and GB’s Charlotte Bankes has taken 4th spot. She is trying to reclaim the Crystal Globe after missing out last year. UPDATED

This winter is the final season before the 2026 Winter Olympics. We have some realistic medal hopes and PlanetSKI is following closely the progress of the GB Snowsport athletes ahead of Milan-Cortina.

The Austrian legend who is now back and racing for the Netherlands tore his ACL in training. He says he may not race again. An ACL injury is one of the most common amoung recreational skiers and we look at what it is. UPDATED

The snowboarder takes top spot in the FIS World Cup Snowboard Big Air. It cements a good start to the season as she looks ahead to the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics in 2026.

The inaugural FIS Freeride World Championships is set to take place in Andorra in February 2026. It is the next step on Freeride becoming an Olympic sport.

The US skier was competing in the slalom at Gurgl in Austria and came away with another emphatic victory. PlanetSKI was slopeside.

It was her 61st title in slalom, and a record eighth triumph on the slope in Levi, Finland. She is moving ever closer to her target of 100 wins. UPDATED

Three-time Olympic skiing medalist Lindsey Vonn is returning to the sport more than five years after she retired. She is 40 years old. UPDATED

The safety measure by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation will come into effect for both categories in the coming 2024/25 season.

The visual identity that will be at the venues is inspired by the new “Italian Spirit” drawing from Italy’s culture and values.

It has been set up by the family of the19-year old Italian skier Matilde Lorenzi who died in a training accident last week.

The film tour is only in its second year, but to us at PlanetSKI it already feels like a regular autumn event that means only one thing. Winter is around the corner.

They are the Balich Wonder studios, Filmmaster and G2 Eventi-Casta Diva Group. The Torch Relays will be produced by AlphaOmega in collaboration with RNK.

The US skier will concentrate on slalom, giant slalom and super-G next winter. It follows an injury in the downhill last season.

There are seven candidates including the President of the International Ski & Snowboard Federation, Johan Eliasch.

The Swiss racer, Niels Hintermann, has lymph node cancer and will miss the upcoming season.
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The International Olympic Committee has posted about the likely ones to watch and they include alpine skier Dave Ryding and snowboarder, Mia Brookes.

The recruitment of volunteers for the Milan-Cortina Games has begun. Around 18,000 “Team26” volunteers are required.

It’s the first time the snowboarders have been competing at elite level in China since the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022.