Because of a joint effort between the FIS Sports Integrity and Training departments, each new FIS Technical Official (TO) should now be taught the basics of sports integrity earlier than they take up their position, with 216 having accomplished the training thus far.
Fairly than responding to integrity points after they happen, the purpose is to guarantee that the folks closest to competitors, the officers who run and oversee it, acknowledge the warning indicators early and know what to do. “Working alongside the Training staff, we wished to make sure that each Technical Official understands the elemental ideas of sports integrity from day one, reflecting FIS’ values and the way we count on our stakeholders to work together,” mentioned Lou Levadoux, FIS Sports Integrity Coordinator, who designed and carried out the module along with the FIS Training division.
Constructed into ‘How we work at FIS’, the e-learning program for Technical Officers, the sports integrity element is organized round FIS’ 4 integrity pillars: safeguarding (Protected Sport), anti-doping (Clear Sport), competitors manipulation and betting (Truthful Sport), and governance and ethics (Higher Sport). Every space is delivered by way of scripts, case research, quizzes, and interactive codecs designed particularly across the operational position of a TO, in order that the content material displays conditions that officers may realistically encounter at an occasion fairly than summary ideas.
“This delved deeply into issues past rules and outcomes. It prompted us to personally analyze what we symbolize as TOs at a contest,” mentioned one participant, with one other stating that the module gave them “a greater understanding of the broader areas that influence our sport and what we are able to do to take care of its integrity.”
