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Dave Ryding was 12th in his opening World Cup race of the season. There were mixed results for other GB athletes.

The first men’s World Cup ski race of the season takes place in Levi, Finland on Sunday. GB’s Dave Ryding will be in action.UPDATED

Voters in a referendum voted 56.4% against hosting the Games in the Canadian city. It is another massive blow to the IOC. UPDATED

An ambitious plan has been unveiled to boost winter & summer activities at the Scottish ski area. It involves new high-speed chairlifts.

The Scottish ski area has splashed out after a successful trial last winter. It’s planning to open up in early December.

The first World Cup Big Air contest of the season in Europe took place at the weekend with teenagers taking all four top spots in ski and snowboard.

The McCormick brothers, Matt and Chris, are in action for GB this weekend in the first Big Air World Cup of the winter in Europe.

The UK’s leading disabled snowsport charity is to open an adaptive ski and snowboard school in England after receiving its biggest ever donation.

The landowners of the Scottish ski area agree to spend the money in a last-ditch attempt to rescue Cairngorm’s winter.

Instructors at the Scottish ski area have been told there’s no work for them this winter. Disabled skiing lessons are also in doubt & a festival is cancelled.

Dreams of Olympic glory turned into a nightmare for GB’s top female snowboarder. 8 months on she is back on crutches after operation number 7.

The men’s World Cup GS race was cancelled on Sunday due to the weather. The women were luckier on Saturday. PlanetSKI reports. UPDATED

The race will have its last stage in the highest resort in the Alps: Val Thorens. The mountains are saved till last.

The GB freestyler skier has suffered another serious knee injury. However another Katie is on the mend.

A record 13 young British skiers and snowboarders are to get help with their costs for the coming winter season.

After debates and delays a joint bid from Turin, Milan and Cortina has emerged. Will it prove successful?

The snowboarder took her own life on her 18th birthday. Tributes have been pouring in from across the snowsports world.

It’s one of five new ski and snowboard disciplines to be included at the next Winter Games, but there’s no place for Telemark skiing. UPDATED

One of the UK’s oldest dry ski slopes has been saved from closure after plans for a housing development were withdrawn.

The Italian government will support one of three cities considering a bid, but the choice by the National Olympic Commitee has been postponed.

Athletes and coaches are announced for the British ski cross and snowboard cross team for next season. NEW

Gender pay gap? Not in ski racing. The top 18 female alpine racers all earned more than their male counterparts last winter.

Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic ski and snowboard teams are to be merged into one world-class programme in a big change for the sport.

A big team of young British skiers and snowboarders is off to New Zealand next month to compete in the Junior Freestyle World Championships.

British ski and snowboard athletes are set to benefit from a big boost in funding ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022.

The consortium behind plans to revive the famous Sheffield Ski Village in South Yorkshire has issued the first images of how it will look.

He’s 15 and already ranked just below the Olympic Big Air medallist in the UK snowboard rankings but who is Gabe Adams?

Skiing’s world governing body is to recommend that Telemark be included in the Winter Games at Beijing in 2022. It’s a big moment for the world’s oldest ski discipline.

It’s the world’s oldest ski discipline and is growing in popularity but Telemark is not in the Olympics. This week there’s an attempt to change that.

Tiny, talented and tipped for the top. PlanetSKI meets Mia Brookes and Kirsty Muir, the freestylers who have what it takes to be the best in the world.

It was a bluebird day in the Swiss resort of Laax for the final two events of the British Snowboard and Freeski Championships. PlanetSKI was slopeside.

PlanetSKI catches up with Billy Morgan on day three of the BRITS to find out how life is treating him after his Winter Olympics bronze medal.

The first day of the British Snowboard and Freeski Championships saw tough fought contests in ski big air and snowboard cross with the young and not so young taking part. PlanetSKI is there. NEW

The GB Winter Olympic bronze medalist Billy Morgan was visiting some of Scotland’s ski resorts last weekend. UPDATED

Menna Fitzpatrick and her guide Jen Kehoe are top of the podium in the women’s visually-impaired slalom at the Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang.

Jan Farrell takes bronze at a World Cup event. It’s the first British podium in Speed Skiing since 2004.