 That same summer, the ski World Championships were held in August for the first time in Portillo, Chile, during the Southern Hemisphere winter.This provided an opportunity for all the major figures in ski racing to come together including as Bob Beattie, Alpine Director of the United States Ski Team, and Honoré Bonnet, head of the French Alpine Ski Team, as well as Dr. Sepp Sulzberger from Austria, and hash out the details of the proposed competition with a few skiers such as Frenchmen Jean-Claude Killy and Guy Périllat or Austrian Karl Schranz.The President of the International Ski Federation (FIS), Marc Hodler from Switzerland, agreed to support the new event which he personally presented to the press in Chile.