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Alpine Skiing: Nations Team Event as parallel race
At the core of the discussion for the FIS Alpine Committee, its Executive Board and the various Sub-Committees was the format of the Nations Team Event at the 2010 FIS Alpine World Cup finals and the rules for the qualification races in the technical events at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.
Based on a detailed analysis conducted Nations Team Event Working Group led by Vedran Pavlek (CRO), including a survey of six groups of stakeholders and an evaluation of TV viewer figures from all past editions of the event, the Alpine Committee decided to propose a one-time test of a team parallel race format for the NTE during the 2010 Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Finals in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER). The Council will also deliberate on new rules for the World Championship technical event qualification races which would allow up to 100 competitors to participate in the final; besides the 50 racers who qualify directly and the top 25 racers in the qualification race, additional 25 nations not represented among the first 75 racers could nominate one competitor for the final.
In addition there were some minor adjustments to the calendars and updated to the rules such as specifications for the one-pole slalom now in use in races below the FIS level.