Ice-age leadership at FIS

In an interview with Tages-Anzeiger, a Swiss newspaper, Gian Franco Kasper, the 75 years old president of the International Ski Federation (FIS) showed once more that he's more a dinosaur than a CEO in tune with his times.

He had begun making demented statements 13 years ago when he had claimed that “ski jumping wasn't appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view”, and recently continued to affirm his iconoclastic views about dictators and climate change.

About tyrants, first, Kasper is alleged to have said: “dictators can organize events ... without asking the people's permission” and “from the business side, I say: I just want to go to dictatorships. I do not want to argue with environmentalists.”

In that same interview, he also referred to “so-called” climate change. To shore up his argument, he mentioned last year’s cold Korean Winter Olympics as a proof, confusing just like Trump, weather with climate.
 
Finally he also inferred that immigrants were to blame for the decline of winter sports in Switzerland. He has since apologized that his comments were taken out of context but what he blurted out hasn't made him many friends in the ski industry.

Many have asked him to resign. Mikaela Shiffrin, Petra Vlova, Marcel Hirscher and Clément Noël, all deserve better. When is FIS going to finally get a worldly, modern, 50 year old CEO?