On September 25 – 26, 2003, the FIL Executive Board met for its fall meeting. Among other things, members of the Executive Board confirmed the new composition of the FIL Medical Working Group, determined prizes money for athletes and financial support for flight costs for the coming season as well as created a working group „50 Years of the FIL“ under the chairmanship of Vice-President Harald Steyrer.

The organizers in Moscow headed by the President of the Russian Luge Federation, Mr. Valeri Silakov offered the Executive Board members an attractive fringe program such as the visit to the „Bolschoi“ theatre.