August 10, 2008 – The International Ski Federation is proud to have several members of the extended FIS family involved in the Beijing Olympic Games beyond their FIS winter sports activities. In addition to FIS President Gian Franco Kasper who is actively involved as an IOC Member and Sarah Lewis, FIS Secretary General who is leading the WADA Independent Observer Team, the following individuals are heavily involved in the XXI Olympic Summer Games in Beijing (Chn) which runs from August 8-24.

FIS Council Members Janez Kocijancic (SLO) and Milan Jirasek (CZE) are both participating at the Olympic Games as the Presidents of their respective National Olympic Committees (NOC) of Slovenia and the Czech Republic. President of the Russian NOC and member of the Supervisory Board of Sochi 2014, FIS Vice-President Leonid Tyagachev (RUS) will visit Asia while the newly-appointed Chairman of the FIS Legal and Safety Committee Jose Luis Marco (ARG) is at the Games as a representative of the Argentinian National Olympic Committee and member of the Coordination Commission of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games.

120th IOC Session
The 120th IOC session began on Tuesday, August 5, in the Beijing Hotel at the 2008 Olympic Games host city Beijing (CHN) and continued until August 7. The IOC session is the general assembly of the IOC members where the most important decisions concerning the Olympic Movement are made. Since 2000, FIS President Gian Franco Kasper is among the 115 members of the IOC.

The agenda items for the 2008 IOC session included the premiere of the 2010 Olympic Youth Games in Singapore, tougher punishment for doping offenders, the election of the IOC Executive Board as well as the decision by the IOC Members on the host National Olympic Committee and respective city to stage the 123rd IOC session in 2011, during which the host city of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games will be elected. In addition, on the IOC Session schedule were reports from the organizing committees for the upcoming Games in Vancouver 2010, London 2012 and Sochi 2014 and of course a report from Beijing 2008.