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At the 53rd Congress in Milan, the FIS Board will determine various organizers for upcoming World Championships. In the Alpine area, Crans-Montana hopes to be awarded the 2027 World Cup.
40 years following the most successful title fights ever from the Swiss point of view – with eight out of ten gold medals won – the ski station on the Valais high plateau wants to host the World Cup once more. In the candidacy for 2025, Crans-Montana was clearly at a disadvantage in October 2020 compared to its Austrian competitor Saalbach-Hinterglemm.
At the second attempt, the experienced Valais, who have been organizing women’s World Cup races almost every season for a decade and a half, should now be able to win the second World Cup following 1987.
Tough competition
However, the majorities in the FIS board around President Johan Eliasch, who has been in charge of the world association for almost a year, are unclear. In addition to Crans-Montana, the established Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which had also clearly failed with its application for 2025, and for the first time the Norwegian Narvik and Soldeu are also competing for the Alpine World Cup.
The Andorrans in particular are by no means to be regarded as just outsiders, thanks to the widely rumored support of the increasingly controversial FIS President Eliasch. Shortly following 7:00 p.m. it will be publicly known who the FIS Board of Directors, to which Swiss Ski President Urs Lehmann has belonged since 2021, will appoint as the organizer of the 2027 Alpine World Championships.
Further decisions will be made in Milan on Thursday. Eliasch will be confirmed at the top of the association for another two years, since there is no opposition candidate. There are 23 candidates for the other 18 people on the FIS Board, including Urs Lehmann. Renaming the FIS to the “International Ski and Snowboard Federation” is also on the agenda. The Alpine World Cup calendar is also still waiting for the okay from the very top – with a delay of several weeks.
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