With nation spots at stake in various sports, performances in the next few days will determine how many New Zealand athletes are going to Sochi.
Hampered by an ongoing heel injury, Wanaka freeskier Jossi Wells must lay down a well-ranked performance in Gstaad, Switzerland, to earn a second slopestyle spot for New Zealand.
Wells (23) has been hampered by the injury and did little skiing up to Christmas.
In Stoneham, Quebec, in Canada, New Zealand's four snowboard slopestyle women are aiming to complete safe runs to remain inside the crucial top 24 rather than throw down more complex and risky tricks.
Skeleton racers Katharine Eustace and Ben Sandford compete on the high-speed skeleton course in Igls, Austria. Eustace now sits inside world rankings at 11th after an outstanding weekend in late December.
Sandford, whose rankings have dropped after the recent North American circuit, is looking for better results to protect his spot.
Alpine ski racers Adam Barwood and Ben Griffin are in competition this weekend as is Olympian snowboarder Bex Sinclair, who has qualified second for the Stoneham halfpipe finals. Sinclair is looking to further secure her position after a major ACL injury kept her out of competition throughout the 2013 northern hemisphere season.
Byron Wells has been resting a shin injury but is back on the snow ahead of the X-Games, the final park and pipe milestone ahead of the Olympic Games.
At this stage, short track speed skater Blake Skjellerup is not going to the Games, as New Zealand has not been allocated a quota spot.
