FIS holds spring meetings this week in Slovenia

The FIS Calendar Conference and Technical Committee meetings are scheduled to begin Wednesday and last through Sunday in Portoroz, Slovenia.
THE FIS Calendar Conference and Technical Committee meetings are scheduled for Wednesday through Sunday, May 23-27, in Portoroz, Slovenia.
    The main agenda item will include the confirmation of the FIS World Cup calendars for the 2007-08 season. The various technical committees will also complete their analysis of the past season and debate various suggestions for changes in competition rules.
    Some of the other important agenda items include a meeting on Friday with all of the candidates for the 2012 and 2013 FIS World Championships in order to review the steps and procedures until the election of the organizers by the FIS Council during the 46th International Ski Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, in the spring of 2008.
    On Saturday, following the meeting of the alpine World Cup sub-committee, the ski industry organization SRS (Ski Racing Suppliers) will host a meeting of all the national ski association’s ski pool representatives to look at ways to try to moderate the high costs associated with traveling, with a special focus on the transportation of equipment during overseas training camps in the summer and fall.
    A training course for national ski associations meant to assist them with the administrative tasks of anti-doping work will be given by Jean-Pierre Moser, WADA’s director of the European office in Lausanne, Switzerland. The course will feature a demonstration of the on-line Anti-Doping Administration Management System, also known as “ADAMS.” The system can be accessed from anywhere in the world through the Internet. Two workshops will be carried out during the meetings in Portoroz on Friday, May 25. The sessions will consist of a presentation and explanation of the system as well as practical exercises.