Team Albirex Niigata is a team by a top athlete of snowboard skiing established in September, 2004. It participates about the Olympics and the FIS World Cup, and it aims at a high-ranking winning a prize in the national constitution etc. The camp by the belonging top athlete has been held for a base expansion and the regional sports promotion as the team. The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of alpine skiing competitions, launched in 1966 by a group of ski racing friends and experts which included French journalist Serge Lang and the alpine ski team directors from France (Honore Bonnet) and the USA (Bob Beattie).