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FIS screwing with skiing again...

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Ace3+4
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http://www.skiracing.com/?q=node%2F12494

Article about the new rules of sponsor size during race.
Basically they don't want ski manufacters to be able to advertise during races (or harldy...) Which leads to the question: why would theses manufacturers want to sponsor athletes in the long run?
Mostly likely this comes from angry Blue-Chip sponsors that dont want to be ambush during their FIS sponsorship deals. The money is going to companies that have nothing to do with skiing and that will will never give back to skiing...

Sparknotes: FIS is Bullshit
May 31 2012 11:37AM
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GayWolf420
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Fuck FIS. They're gonna make Henrik and B-dog take their wu sticks off.
Jun 1 2012 10:30AM
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coolflash8
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never
Jun 1 2012 11:20AM
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WI_Personallty
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Yeah the olypics is especially har on snowboard pipe and 2014 will definetly happen to all skies and snowboarder. They can't use a logo on their equipment that is visible to the human eye on TV or at the location. Even during an interview.
Jun 1 2012 1:29PM
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Randy_Quench
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0. they are the best of the best, thats the irony of the situation.
Jun 1 2012 1:34PM
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On one hand, this is good because it can (hopefully) give sponsors incentive to stop pushing their riders into competing (huge buzz kill) and direct funding towards more creative marketing outlets. On the other hand, we are talking about FIS here. Meaning that any regulations they implicate aren't coming from a place of reason. So even if this particular instance could potentially (by some stretch) have beneficial results, it is doing so superficially.

In other words...
Best case scenario: FIS is bad. Does something bad. Accidentally has positive outcome.
Worst case scenario: Fis is bad. Does something bad. People keep giving a shit about competitions.
Jun 1 2012 3:30PM
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zacharyn
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Jun 1 2012 6:09PM
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RoofDaRoofieDogg
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haha
Jun 1 2012 6:19PM
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.ZT.
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10/10 Great post

IMO Olympics is a whole other level of skiing. scratch brands, you are representing a country, I also believe that at other competitions, like dew and x games, they will remain allowing sponsor advertisement so that will allow companies to advertise their brands at contests, especially not during Olympic years,
Jun 2 2012 3:22PM
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