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by Ivan Sache, 28 March 2009
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FIS ("Fédération internationale de ski" / "International Ski Federation" / "Internationaler
Ski Verband") was founded by 14 national federations on 2 February 1924 in
Chamonix, during the 7th Congress of the International Ski Commission, which
had been founded on 18 February 1910 at Christiana (today Oslo, Norway). The
Chamonix International Winter Sports Week, during which the FIS was founded,
would be later recognized as the First Winter Olympic Games. Based at
Oberhofen-am-Thunersee (Switzerland) and with 107 members, the FIS is in
charge of cross-country, ski jumping, Nordic combined, freestyle skiing and
snowboard (Olympic disciplines), as well as speed skiing, grass skiing and
Telemark (non-Olympic disciplines).
Ivan Sache, 28 March 2009
In March 2009, the flag of FIS was
presented to the organizers of the 2011 World Championship of Snowboard, to
be held at La Molina (Catalonia, Spain). The flag, unsurprisingly, is white
with the FIS logo in the middle. The logo of FIS shows the three black
letters "F", "I" and "S", separated by two "tracks", yellow and blue,
respectively. The ® symbol placed near the "S" on the logo is omitted on the
flag. I don't know when the current logo was adopted but I am quite sure
that it was already in use in the Albertville Olympics, 1992.
http://www.nevasport.com/noticias/d/16574/la-fis-entrega-la-bandera-a-la-molina
Ivan Sache, 28 March 2009