To the INTERNATIONAL SKI FEDERATION - Members of the Alpine Committee Blochstrasse 2 - Members of the Alpine Conference 3653 Oberhofen/Thunersee For information to: Switzerland - see next page Tel +41 33 244 61 61 Fax +41 33 244 61 71 Oberhofen, 06.06.2018 Minutes Alpine Committee Westin Resort Costa Navarino (GRE), Wednesday, 16.05.2018 Dear Ski Friends, We have pleasure in sending you today the Minutes of the Meeting of the Alpine Committee meeting held in Costa Navarino (GRE), 16th May 2018. You are kindly asked to send any remarks to the FIS Office in Oberhofen no later than 30th June 2018. We would also like to take the opportunity of informing you that the minutes are available on the Member Services section of the FIS Website: www.fis-ski.com. Thank you very much for your valuable contribution. Kindest regards, Bernhard Russi Janez Fleré Chairman Alpine Committee Alpine Technical Coordinator FIS Staff - Atle Skaardal, FIS - Markus Waldner, FIS - Jean Phillippe Vulliet, FIS - Hannes Trinkl, FIS - Markus Mayr, FIS - Emmanuel Couder, FIS - Andreas Krönner, FIS - Mike Kertesz, FIS - Peter Gerdol, FIS - Daniel Defago, FIS - Jenny Wiedecke, FIS - Juerg Capol, FIS Other Committees, Working Groups - Horst Hüttel, GER, Nordic Combined Committee - Vegard Ulvang, NOR, Cross-Country Committee - Mika Kojonkoski, FIN, Jumping Committee - Aki Murasato, JPN, Equipment Committee - Rudi Huber, SRS - Hubert Hörterer, GER, Medical Committee - Chris Moore, CAN, Legal and Safety Committee - Pernilla Wiberg, SWE, Alpine Equipment WG - Daniela Merighetti, ITA, Athletes Commission - Hannes Reichelt, AUT, Athletes Commission Organisers OWG/WSC - OC OWG 2018 Pyeong Chang, KOR - OC WSC 2019 Are, SWE - OC YOWG 2020 Lausanne, SUI - OC WSC 2021 Cortina, ITA - OC OWG 2022 Beijing, CHN - OC WSC 2023 Meribel Courchevel, FRA Honorary Members - Stig Ove Gustafsson, SWE - Oskar Fischer, GER - Christian Poley, AUT - Svein Mundal, NOR - Toni Vogrinec, SLO Minutes FIS Committee for Alpine Skiing, Costa Navarino (GRE), 16.05.2018 - 2 - INTERNATIONAL SKI FEDERATION Alpine Committee Invitation Meeting Alpine Committee Wednesday, 16.05.2018, 14:00 hrs, Conference Room “Cosmos 1A/B” AGENDA 1. Welcome Bernhard Russi 2. Roll Call Janez Fleré 3. Approval of the Agenda Bernhard Russi 4. Approval of the Minutes of the 85th meeting held on October 2017 in Zurich (SUI) Janez Fleré 5. Reports 5.1 Chairman Bernhard Russi 6. Executive Board Bernhard Russi Sub-Committees / Working Groups: 7. Evaluation 7.1 Data and Timing Working Group Daniel Defago 7.2 Classification of Alpine Competitors Jeff Weinman 8. Ladies' Alpine Skiing Karen Korfanta 9. Alpine Courses Elena Gaja 10. Rules Michael Huber 11. Alpine Technical Delegates Walter Vogel 12. Alpine World Cup Niklas Carlsson 12.1 Working Group Ladies´ Coaches Atle Skaardal 12.2 Working Group Men´s Coaches Markus Waldner 13. Intercontinental Cup Stefano Pirola 13.1 European Cup Herbert Mandl 13.2 Nor-Am Dusan Grasic 13.3 Far East Michihiko Nakamura 13.4 South American Cup Ernesto Cingolani 13.5 Australia New Zealand Cup David Howden 14. Youth Questions Ken Read 14.1 Junior World Ski Championships Peter Gerdol 15. Material and Equipment 15.1 WG for Alpine Equipment Pernilla Wiberg Minutes FIS Committee for Alpine Skiing, Costa Navarino (GRE), 16.05.2018 - 3 - 16. Athletes Commission Daniela Merighetti / Hannes Reichelt 17. Reports from Organisers of the previous and next major championships: 17.1 2018 Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang (KOR) 17.2 2019 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Are (SWE) 17.3 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games, Lausanne (SUI) 17.4 2021 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, Cortina (ITA) 17.5 2022 Olympic Winter Games, Beijing (CHN) 18. 2023 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Candidates 18.1 Saalbach Hinterglemm (AUT) 18.2 Meribel - Courchevel (FRA) 20. Questions, Various 21. Next Meetings th th FIS Autumn Meeting, Zurich (SUI), 25 to 29 September 2018 Minutes FIS Committee for Alpine Skiing, Costa Navarino (GRE), 16.05.2018 - 4 - All proposals and decisions of the FIS Alpine Committee were send for approval of the FIS Council at its Meeting to be held in Costa Navarino (GRE), May 2018 1. Welcome and Opening of the Meeting The Chairman, Bernhard Russi (SUI), welcomed all present to the 86th meeting of the FIS Alpine Committee in Costa Navarino (GRE). 2. Roll Call Janez Fleré (FIS) conducted the roll call (see enclosure). Apologies were received from Claus Ryste (NOR), Janne Leskinen (FIN) members of the Executive Board, David Howden (NZL), Chairman of the Australian New Zealand Cup and Pernilla Wiberg, Chair of the Alpine Working Group. 3. Approval of the Agenda The Agenda, without additions, was unanimously approved. 4. Approval of the Minutes The Minutes of the 85th Meeting held in October 2017 in Zürich (SUI) were unanimously approved without comment. 5. Reports 5.1 Chairman (Bernhard Russi, SUI) The Chairman gave a report. The following are his words verbatim:. “Sunshine and shadows”. The focus of last the winter season was without any doubt the Olympic Winter Games 2018 in PyeongChang (KOR), although we cannot forget our daily business. Our draught horses clearly are: - the World Cup, - the different Continental Cups, as well as - all the other 2’700 FIS competitions which take place all over the world. This is where alpine racing breathes, where it has its tradition, where the fans/followers and the enthusiasm/passion for our sport can be found. During the Olympic Winter Games we faced different challenges. In South-Korea our sports was at the highest level, with exciting, refreshing and partly also surprising performances of our athletes. Apart from that, we were challenged/struggling with unusually strong winds. Nature could only be influenced by competent and clever decisions of our jury members and all competitions were carried out under fair conditions, partly also under excellent weather and snow conditions. The support of the spectators left something to be desired. The partly disappointing spectator stands, the lack of fan clubs as well as the lack of understanding of most of the attendees could not produce the fire of a festive atmosphere. Therefore it‘s not surprising that only at the very last competition, the Team Event, were the stands crowded with enthusiastic spectators The Team Event as a parallel format has taken place for the first time ever in the Olympic Programme and was a huge success. The development of this basic idea shows us that new formats, new revolutionary ideas require a certain time until they are accepted within our sport. In 2005 the Team Event was part of the World Championships Programme and since 2010 it has been included in the World Cup Calendar. Finally after 13 years it has become an Olympic Minutes FIS Committee for Alpine Skiing, Costa Navarino (GRE), 16.05.2018 - 5 - event. In the meantime we use various formats in parallel events, which will now have to be refined and adapted to various competition levels. The fascinating part of our sport, the artistic movements on snow and ice, the control and handling of speed, the course setting and natural barriers are unfortunately also accompanied by tragic and sad accidents. David Poisson and Max Burkhart did not have the luck that fortunately accompanies most of the alpine racers. The luck to be back on the race slopes only some weeks or month after an injury. They had to pay their love of our sport with their young lives. Time is running fast and will heal deep wounds, but David and Max will always remain in our hearts and will never be forgotten! Similarly, we have to keep in mind that a certain risk always remains in our sport. And that despite ongoing security measures, we have to daily improve and develop our beloved sport.” 6. Executive Board (Bernhard Russi, SUI) There have been three meetings here in Costa Navarino and several matters have been discussed. The following proposal is forwarded to the FIS Council. Special quotas for Alpine Team Event at World Cup Finals The Executive Board supported the proposal of the National Ski Association of Andorra to invite the host nation to the Alpine Team Event to be held during the World Cup Finals in Soldeu (AND). Honorary member The Alpine Committee unanimously proposes that Toni Vogrinec, SLO be named an “honorary member” of the Alpine Committee. The Alpine Committee supported all proposals 7. Evaluation 7.1 Timing Working Group (Daniel Defago, FIS) The Timing Working Group had its meeting in Zürich and Daniel Defago reported on behalf of the Working Group. The timing device SUMMIT SYSTEMS SRT1000 has expired and it has only been used in Panorama BC (CAN) for 22 races this year. The company is currently investigating if a re- homologation is possible. We propose also to make a small rule change about the synchronization, this rule change should make the work easier for the timekeeper. It will be included in the Rules Sub- Committee proposals. We made also some adjustments for the electronic timing report to be more adapted with the Parallel format and to cover more FIS disciplines too. Electronic time reports will be mandatory for CC, SB and FS. The Timing Working Group has a new member: Tommy Jauhojärvi (CEO EMIT) Norwegian Timing Company, he has a good experience about timing in the lower level CC races. 7.2 Classification of Alpine Competitors (Jeff Weinman, USA) Special Quotas for the Southern. Hemisphere were announced. The following proposal were presented to Alpine Committee for approval: Special Quotas Minutes FIS Committee for Alpine Skiing, Costa Navarino (GRE), 16.05.2018 - 6 - 7.1.7 Country Groups - For CAN-USA / DEN-FIN-ISL-NOR-SWE / ARG-BOL-BRA-CHI / AUS-FIJ-NZL / CHN- JPN-KOR-MGL-IND-PAK / LBN-ROU-RSA-CYP-LUX-POR-AND-SRB-MON-SMR- IRL): maximum 30 (FRA (Pyrenees) – ESP-AND: 40) for each nation for races organised in a country of that country group.