The center of the “meeting marathon” will be the annual meetings of the four expert commissions of the FIL on Saturday and Sunday (Sport Commission and Technical Commission artificial and natural track). Their agendas will include the analysis of the past luge season as well as the scheduling of the World Cups and championships of the 2003/2004 season.

Already on Thursday, the “Olympic Rules Working Group” will deal with the rules of the luge competitions as part of the XX. Olympic Winter Games in Turin, Italy, in 2006. Behind the scenes, the preparations for this major sports events are already in full swing.

Directed by FIL President Josef Fendt, an expert meeting will take place on Friday, which will focus on ways to modernize luge events and make them more attractive for media and spectators. Apart from FIL representatives, coaches of the strongest luge nations and an athlete, television commentators, media representatives and several insiders of the sport of luge will be given the opportunity of communicating their ideas.

At the same time, additional working groups will convene from Friday to Sunday. Their responsibilities include important topics of youth work and the further development of the sport of luge.

The meetings will be held from Thursday evening to Sunday noon at the Berchtesgaden convention hall (“Kur- und Kongresshaus”) as well as at the Hotel Seimler. The President of the world federation, Josef Fendt from Berchtesgaden, is particularly happy that these significant meetings are this time conducted in his home town.

International Luge Federation
FIL Office
Rathausplatz 9
83471 Berchtesgaden
Germany
phone: (49.8652) 66960
fax: (49.8652) 66969
e-mail: office@fil-luge.org