After a unanimous resolution on Wednesday, the Worldwide Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) now acknowledges freeride snowboarding and snowboarding as official winter sports activities disciplines. The FIS made the choice at its annual normal meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Two years in the past, the FIS and the Freeride World Tour (FWT) joined forces, enabling the FIS so as to add freeriding to its checklist of official snow sports activities disciplines this yr. In an official press launch, FWT CEO Nicolas Hale-Woods stated, “The popularity of freeride snowboarding and snowboarding as official disciplines inside FIS will elevate the game and supply new alternatives for athletes worldwide. We’re excited concerning the future prospects this brings to the freeride motion and past.” He additionally hopes that freeride snowboarding will develop into an Olympic occasion sooner or later which is among the important objectives of the Freeride World Tour Organizers. The fusion might additionally imply a broader vary of places for the FWT. After the worldwide recognition, votes will happen within the 140 member organizations to additional enhance the event of freeride snowboarding and snowboarding in every nation.
Supporters of the choice hope the FIS will deliver higher construction and advertising to the game. After the fusion in 2022, Max Hitzig, the reigning FWT champion, informed German sports activities journal Sportschau: “Freeriding is a fringe sport with a excessive stage of threat and, sadly, there may be not a lot cash concerned. It’s not like alpine snowboarding, the place you develop into well-known and might stay off it. The FIS might additionally make tv protection an possibility.” Critics of the choice concern that FIS might restrict the chances of the game by imposing stricter guidelines. Simply final yr, the FIS made the controversial resolution to make poles obligatory in slopestyle, massive air, and halfpipe snowboarding contests.
The FIS, which stands for Fédération Internationale de Ski, is a worldwide group answerable for almost all ski and snowboard disciplines. It organizes the World Cups and World Championships in every self-discipline and units the foundations for every sport. The FIS was based in 1924 throughout the first Winter Olympics.
The Freeride World Tour is a global ski and snowboard freeride competitors collection internet hosting occasions in a number of international locations worldwide. After every season, the rider who scored essentially the most factors is topped world champion. Riders are judged in a number of classes like model, line alternative, and velocity whereas they maneuver uncovered off-piste terrain. The primary FWT occasion happened in 2008 in Verbier, Switzerland.
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