The Saab Salomon Skier-X Team heads today for Lake Placid, USA, the first qualifying event for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, well-placed to climb the winner’s podium.

Professional skiers can now learn how to ski faster with the aid of a new system used to capture 3D motion of athletic movements – Fusion Motion Capture (FMC). Featured in Wiley-Blackwell’s journal, Sports Technology, this is the first time the study of FMC has been published in a journal.

Ski tourism is raising stress levels among capercaillie, which could harm the birds’ fitness and ability to breed successfully, ecologists have found.

A 14 year old boy from the Czech Republic, has died after a downhill collision with a Swedish man on a ski slope in Austria.

Swedes are travelling further and further abroad for their winter sports holidays.