2018 Sundsvall FIS TD Seminar

1. Season overview / review
and FIS news
Anna Rosa
FIS TD Seminar Sundsvall October 2018

2. Athletes survey World Cup season 2017/2018
(92 total responses +26% than season 16/17)
Athlete representatives for FIS cross-country skiing
Athletes point of view
Virginia De Martin Martti Jylhä

3. Classical technique

4. Do you think we should stop competing in classic
and race only in free technique?
• 7,95% Yes
• 92,05% No
Do you think it’s important to have sprints in
classic?
• 81,82% Yes, it’s important
• 18,18% No, it’s not important
Classical technique / yes

5. Do you think FIS should maintain an even split between
skate and classic races (50-50) for the World Cup calendar?
• 31,11% Yes, always
• 50% Yes, but only when proper courses can be used
• 18,89% Not necessarily
How important is it to have a 50/50 balance with classic and
skate through the whole season?
• 31,11% Very important
• 55,56% It should be respected, but only when proper
courses can be used
• 13,33% It doesn’t matter
Classical races / proper courses

6. Proper courses
TUFF

7. Diagonal zones
DIAGONAL zones

8. How did you feel about the use of the “technique zones”?
• 63,86% technique zones were effective as used
• 22,89% zones were partially effective but need to be
adjusted
• 13,25% zones is a bad idea and should not be used
Related feedback to the jury:
• More guidance on where the technique zones to apply
• Technique zones marked the day before races
• Stronger consequences for breaking the no-double
poling rules
Diagonal zones / effective

9. We have seen less yellow cards during the 2017/18
season, is the line good and equal?
• 85,71%Yes
• 14,29%No
Related feedback to the jury:
• Be impartial and objective
• Sometimes jury should be stronger in punishing
infractions
Yellow card / good and equal line

10. Follow the chart

11. The new chart
2019: 2018:

12. Pole length

13. At OWG/SPWQ/SWC/WC (total 70 races Men and
Ladies) 109 official reprimands were given:
2 DSQ (5 last year)
1 DSQ /2nd WR
34 WR (51 last year)
3 CS (11 last year)
67 VR (not listed last year)
1 TP
2 MF
Official reprimands list output

14. Disqualification reasons:
• 1 Not following the marked course
• 1 Violation of classical technique / turning technique
Written reprimand reasons:
• 11 Classical technique violation
• 10 Obstruction
• 5 False start
• 5 Not following the course
• 3 Others
Verbal reprimand reasons:
• 46 Classical technique violation
• 13 Not following the course
• 7 Obstruction
• 1 Others
Reasons
Top reasons
Top reasons

15. Classical technique violation (season 2018)
Turning technique outside turning zone
Skiing outside the track
Wrong technique in diagonal zone
Losing a step or two
Herringbone with a gliding phase
Pure skating (popular races)

16. Turning technique outside turning zone

17. Case study

18. Skiing outside the track

19. Losing a step or two

20. Wrong technique in diagonal zone

21. Herringbone with gliding phase

22. Skating in “no skating” zone

23. Pure skating (popular races)

24. Obstruction

25. Obstruction…?

26. Not following the marked course

27. Infraction…?

28. Controls!

29. Shared venues!

30. City sprints!

31. FIS News

32. • Scandinavia/Baltic: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland,
Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Greenland.
• Western Europe: Andorra, Austria, Spain, France, Great
Britain, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Slovenia,
Switzerland, Czech.
• Central/EasternEurope: Bosnia/Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia,
Slovakia, Lebanon, Armenia, Belarus, Iran, India, Pakistan,
Kazahkhstan, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Lebanon.
• Far East: Japan, Korea, China, Mongolia, Chinese Taipei,
DPR Korea.
• Americas: USA, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile.
• Oceania: Australia, New Zealand.
Homologation and TD regions

33. FIS points (tomorrow)

34. Factors and minimum penalties

35. Schedule changes

36. Tour de Ski Oberstdorf 2018

37. Race cancellation and schedule changes

38. • The LOC is responsible to provide a local and professional
weather forecast.
• In case of extreme weather conditions expected during the
event (official training and competition days), an Event
Preparation Group will be established (according to article
2.2) in order to make decisions on the possibility to hold
the events as planned or to make any necessary changes.
• During this process a local weather expert must be
provided by the LOC and be available to give some inputs to
the event preparation group.
• The jury will be consulted and represented by the Race
Director.
Rules FIS CC WC / Extreme weather

39. In case of extremely limited course access it is not
allowed to use bibs from another nation (the skier
must be accredited/season accreditation for the
same nation as the nation code written on the bib).
.
Rules FIS CC WC / Bibs

40. Lahti 2017

41. To be eligible for entry in FIS World
Championships the cross-country competitors
must have less than 700 FIS points in the last
FIS points list (distance or sprint).
WC rules

42. TD education guidelines

43. Rules and control report / to the Council
ICR 215.2 National Ski Associations are not
permitted to enter and draw the same
competitors in more than one competition on
the same date.
The committee asked council for clarification of
the rule and requested to have the possibility to
have more than one competition in one day.

44. Rules and control report / Popular news
Minimum distance required for Popular races to
be valid for the FIS Points from actual minimum
50 km down to 30 km.
From the season 2019/2020

45. Rules and control report / Rol clarification
14/09/201818:09:08 Coppa delMondo SkirollTrento -parallelo finaliA
Fotofinish-Arrivo
Partenza:14/09/2018
17:55:20.10 17:55:20.20 17:55:20.30 17:55:20.40

46. Thanks for your attention!