Even in the third year of his presidency, Fis board member Johan Eliasch’s plan to market the World Cups centrally and more lucratively has stalled. At the same time, the association reports losses worth millions.
The host who most recently stepped onto the podium in Sölden at the Forum Alpinum, a winter sports congress that heralds the start of the season, was quite a surprise. No, he is really not Johan, confirmed Michel Vion, the general secretary of the international ski and snowboard association Fis. What he was referring to was Johan Eliasch, the British-Swedish multi-billionaire who unfortunately had “some kind of urgent private business” get in the way, as Vion said.
