Kasper Takes Winter Youth Olympics Post
International Olympic Committee member Gian-Franco Kasper has been appointed to chair the Co-ordination Commission for the first Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck in 2012.
A month after the election by the IOC members of Innsbruck as the host city of the first Winter Youth Olympic Games in 2012, Kasper, an IOC member and President of the International Ski Federation (FIS), has been named as the Commission Chairman, heading up the group of representatives from the IOC and the Olympic Movement who will be monitoring the Youth Olympic Games preparations and guiding the Innsbruck Organising Committee over the next three years.
Kasper has a wealth of experience of Games co-ordination as a member of the Coordination Commissions for the XIX Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City in 2002 (1999-2002), XX Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006 (2000-2006), XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 (since 2003) and the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 (since 2007).
Gian-Franco Kasper will accompany IOC President Jacques Rogge during the inaugural IOC visit to Innsbruck this week on 14th and 15th January.
