Lausanne (RWH) Gian-Franco Kasper, president of the International Ski Federation (FIS), has confirmed he is serving as ad-hoc interim chairman of the SportAccord Council until a new president is elected at an Extraordinary General Assembly in November. Marius Vizer, the former president of SportAccord, resigned at the end of May. This came after he officially criticised the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its president Thomas Bach at April's SportAccord General Assembly in Sochi.