FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski Committee Meetings Recap
Published Fri 11 Oct 2019
The 2019 FIS technical committee meetings took place last week once again at the Hilton Zurich Airport hotel in Switzerland, with four days of planning, strategizing and implementation on the part of subcommittees and other groups culminating in Friday’s day-long Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski Committee meeting.
With briefs from the heads of the Freeski and Snowboard Park & Pipe, Cross, Moguls & Aerials, Alpine Snowboard, and several other subcommittees, an extensive discussion on strategies, direction, and action for the various events under the Committee umbrella, and presentations from the likes of Krasnoyrask 2025, Beijing 2022, and Lausanne 2020, there was a huge amount of ground covered over the course of Friday’s meeting.
Here we’ll illustrate some of the highlights, beginning with perhaps the biggest news of the season for fans of FIS Snowboard, Freestyle, and Freeski - the announcement that ALL World Cup events will be live streamed on the FIS Snowboard or FIS Freestyle YouTube channels this season, available for free viewing in all nations where a national broadcaster does not hold exclusive rights to the event. Already the season-opening FIS Snowboard big air World Cup and the FIS Freeski halfpipe World Cup competitions in Cardrona (NZL) have been livestreamed, and we look forward to growing engagement and viewership over the season with this hugely exciting development in the partnership between FIS and our broadcast rights holders at InFront Sports & Media.