The FIS congress has been postponed: Kasper president until 2021, in October the assignment of the 2025 World Cup

Rinviato il congresso FIS: Kasper presidente sino al 2021, ad ottobre l'assegnazione dei Mondiali 2025
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The FIS congress has been postponed: Kasper president until 2021, in October the assignment of the 2025 World Cup

The International Federation will only hold video conferences for all decisions of the classic autumn event, including likely changes to the World Cup calendars.

The 52nd FIS congress will not be held from September 29 to October 2 in Zurich, but has been officially postponed to the week from May 30 to June 5, 2021 in Portoroz, Slovenia, when there will also be the election of the new president of the FIS. Gian Franco Kasper, in fact, will extend his presidency for another year, with the challenge expected between Urs Lehmann (president of Swiss-Ski) and Johan Eliasch (CEO of Head) which should have been staged on October 4th. What else changes in substance? Not much, given that the various technical meetings will be held in video conference which will have to define, for each discipline of the FIS home, any changes to the calendars of a World Cup that will probably change face in some cases. On Friday, the decision not to meet the Council arrived, on the recommendation of the group of experts of the FIS medical committee; The elections for the assignment of the 2025 Alpine Ski World Championships, which see Crans-Montana, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Saalbach-Hinterglemm, will also be online, while the organization entrusted in Trondheim for the '' world championship event of the same year in Trondheim, the only candidate for the Nordic World Ski Championships.
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