On Saturday, 28^th October 2017 in Helsinki (FIN), Markku Haapasalmi was unanimously elected as the new President of the Finnish Ski Association by the Association’s Council. Haapasalmi follows in the footsteps of Jukka-Pekka Vuori who held the position for the past four years.

Last Saturday, 28^th October 2017, following the invitation of the International Olympic Committee, the leading representatives of the Olympic Movement met in Lausanne (SUI) for the 6^th Olympic Summit. FIS was represented by its President Gian Franco Kasper in his capacity as President of the Association of International Olympic Winter Sports Federations (AIOWF).

The FIS Forum Alpinum for the 2017/18 season took place on 27^th October 2017 in Soelden (AUT) as members of the alpine ski racing community and media gathered together for the annual event. 

Ski Jumping took centre stage at the 4^th Coordination Group for the Seefeld 2019 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.

This season the title of World’s Largest Kids Snow programme belongs to the Canadian Ski Council for the second consecutive season as the Grade 4 and 5 Snowpass continues into the new season. 

The 4^th Coordination Group Meeting for the 2021 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships was held in Cortina d’Ampezzo (ITA) last week.

The FIS Snowboard World Cup is about to return to Lower Austria this season as Lackenhof will celebrate its World Cup host debut by staging back-to-back parallel races on January 5 and 6, 2018.

Pierre Mignerey, FIS Cross-Country Race Director gave an interview to www.xc-ski.de about the future of Cross-Country Skiing and proposals how to streamline the competition programme. Here's the English original of the interview.  

While the winter hasn't arrived in Europe yet, FIS Officials are currently busy on checking the World Cup venues for the 2017-18 season.

The FIS Autumn meetings in Zurich saw a very productive meeting of the Alpine Snowboard Sub Committee.