{"id":26452,"date":"2011-11-14T07:27:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T15:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26452"},"modified":"2011-11-15T08:24:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T16:24:05","slug":"fis-still-running-olympic-snowboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26452","title":{"rendered":"FIS Still Running Olympic Snowboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Unknown-1-1.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Unknown-1-1.jpeg','popup','width=132,height=138,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Unknown-1-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"104\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Unknown-1-1\" \/><\/a>In a move that really shouldn&#8217;t surprise anyone who has been <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flakezine.com\/rant23.html\" target=\"_blank\">paying attention to Olympic Snowboarding since before its debut<\/a><\/strong> in Nagano Japan in 1998, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fis-ski.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Federation International du Ski<\/a><\/strong> has rejected the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ttrworldtour.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TTR&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> joint qualification proposal, according to a <strong>Melissa Larsen<\/strong> story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/snowboarding\/story\/_\/id\/7219564\/fis-rejects-ttr-proposal-joint-olympic-qualification-system-negotiations-end\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN.com\/Action<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a letter sent on Wednesday to the TTR regarding the decision, FIS Secretary General Sarah Lewis stated that, &#8220;FIS is open to cooperating with TTR and its member Events to continue to develop the sport \u2026 However this is a process that needs to begin at a lower level than the top events in order to build trust and understanding between the organizations and persons involved.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, &#8220;FIS owns Olympic Snowboarding no dice for you, you silly little snowboard organization.&#8221; While TTR&#8217;s <strong>Reto Lamm<\/strong> may have other ideas the situation remains the same as it ever was: snowboarders who want to compete in the Olympics must follow the FIS tour. Period. But hey, nice try. For more details, follow the link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/snowboarding\/story\/_\/id\/7219564\/fis-rejects-ttr-proposal-joint-olympic-qualification-system-negotiations-end\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN.com\/Action<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that really shouldn&#8217;t surprise anyone who has been paying attention to Olympic Snowboarding since before its debut in Nagano Japan in 1998, the Federation International du Ski has rejected the TTR&#8217;s joint qualification proposal, according to a Melissa Larsen story on ESPN.com\/Action. In a letter sent on Wednesday to the TTR regarding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26496,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26452\/revisions\/26496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}