{"id":2165110,"date":"2026-09-26T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2165110"},"modified":"2026-09-26T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T10:00:50","slug":"fis-rewrites-its-own-rulebook-to-make-a-gus-kenworthy-team-usa-return-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2165110","title":{"rendered":"FIS Rewrites Its Own Rulebook to Make a Gus Kenworthy Team USA Return Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_427917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-427917\" style=\"width: 1609px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-427917 lazyload\" src=\"image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAoAAAAGgAQMAAAAAR0TLAAAABlBMVEUAAAD\/\/\/+l2Z\/dAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAADhJREFUeNrtwTEBAAAAwqD1T20ND6AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAODXAIOgAAGpe47\/AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC\" alt=\"gus kenworthy\" width=\"640\" height=\"416\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snowbrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gus-kenworthy.jpg?resize=640%2C416&amp;ssl=1\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snowbrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gus-kenworthy.jpg?w=1609&amp;ssl=1 1609w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snowbrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gus-kenworthy.jpg?resize=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snowbrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gus-kenworthy.jpg?resize=1200%2C779&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snowbrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gus-kenworthy.jpg?resize=768%2C499&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snowbrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gus-kenworthy.jpg?resize=1536%2C998&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snowbrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gus-kenworthy.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" data-max-width=\"640\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-eio-rwidth=\"640\" data-eio-rheight=\"416\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-427917\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snowbrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gus-kenworthy.jpg?resize=640%2C416&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"gus kenworthy\" width=\"640\" height=\"416\" data-eio=\"l\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-427917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy is switching from Team Great Britain back to Team USA. | Credit: Associated Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\" style=\"margin: 8px auto;text-align: center;display: block;clear: both\">\n<!-- GAM 71161633\/SNWBR_snowbrains\/article_hrec_1 --><\/p>\n<div data-fuse=\"article_hrec_1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>After representing Great Britain at the past two Winter Olympic Games, freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy is returning to Team USA.\u00a0<\/strong>According to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.ph\/olympics\/story\/_\/id\/50019910\/gus-kenworthy-returns-us-ski-team-sparks-rule-change\">ESPN<\/a><\/em>, the move was recently approved by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fis-ski.com\/\">International Ski and Snowboard Federation<\/a> (FIS) earlier this month. Now, the 34-year-old is eligible for international competition and will once again compete as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usskiandsnowboard.org\/\">U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kenworthy had initially competed for Team USA before switching to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamgb.com\/\">Team Great Britain<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>Now, he is back competing for the stars and stripes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/snowbrains.com\/russian-and-belarusian-athletes-can-compete-in-fis-events-with-approved-neutral-status\/\">Russian and Belarusian Athletes Can Compete in FIS Events with Approved Neutral Status<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The switch-up comes amidst a period of rule changes put in place by FIS. <\/strong>Back in 2025, the FIS updated its rules to prohibit athletes from changing national affiliation more than once \u2014 an early version of what\u2019s now informally called the FIS nationality switching rule. However, when Kenworthy presented his desire to switch back to Team USA, FIS examined the rule and ultimately made a change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThis was not an exception or an exemption from the rule,\u201d FIS ad interim Secretary General Urs Lehmann told ESPN.<\/strong> \u201cGus\u2019 case initiated a thought process and a change in thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-15\" style=\"margin: 8px auto;text-align: center;display: block;clear: both\">\n<div class=\"sb-trending-widget\">\n<div class=\"sb-trending-header\">\n            <span class=\"sb-trending-icon\">\ud83d\udd25<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"sb-trending-label\">Trending on SnowBrains<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n<ol class=\"sb-trending-list\">\n<li class=\"sb-trending-item\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/snowbrains.com\/gus-kenworthy-team-usa-return\/?utm_source=trending_widget&amp;utm_medium=internal&amp;utm_campaign=trending\" class=\"sb-trending-link\" 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});<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Under the new rule, athletes may now be permitted to return to compete for their original country after a period of at least four years. <\/strong>However, athletes looking to make a third change must\u00a0meet criteria that Lehmann describes as \u201ceven more restrictive than was required to make the initial change.\u201d The criteria put in place are meant to combat competitive tourism \u2014 changing national affiliation to ease the path to international teams and competition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>According to an FIS representative and ESPN, the change will be added to its rulebook after the next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fis-ski.com\/inside-fis\/news\/2026-27\/fis-autumn-meetings-2026-a-milestone-for-collaboration-and-transparency\">council meeting<\/a> scheduled to begin on September 28, 2026.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/snowbrains.com\/freeride-skiing-and-snowboarding-to-debut-at-2030-winter-olympics\/\">Freeride Skiing and Snowboarding to Debut at 2030 Winter Olympics<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Kenworthy, originally from Essex, England, moved with his family to Colorado at just two years old.\u00a0<\/strong>He started his career competing for Team USA, eventually qualifying for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, where he won silver in slopestyle as part of a U.S. podium sweep with gold medalist Joss Christensen and bronze medalist Nick Goepper. He competed in his second Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, in 2018, where he was one of the first two openly gay men to compete for Team USA at the Winter Games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One year after the 2018 Games, Kenworthy announced a switch to compete for Team Great Britain.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI wanted to honor my mom,\u201d Kenworthy said.<\/strong> \u201cIt was also a strategic move as far as qualifying, and it opened up a spot for another athlete on the U.S. team. And I thought it would be my last Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>His first Olympics with Team GB came in 2022.\u00a0<\/strong>He had initially decided to retire after the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, China, but he began to recover from decades of injuries and concussions. He chose to compete again at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Olympics, where he finished sixth in the halfpipe. Despite a solid finish, Kenworthy was not satisfied.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI only gave myself nine months to train after taking years off,\u201d Kenworthy said.<\/strong> \u201cAnd I wasn\u2019t too far out of the mix. I thought, \u2018I\u2019m healthy and skiing well, so why would I stop?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><strong>Related: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/snowbrains.com\/uk-sport-restructures-olympic-snowsport-funding-cuts-out-gb-snowsport\/\">UK Sport Restructures Olympic Snowsport Funding, Cuts Out GB Snowsport<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>He finished the season with Team GB, capped off with the World Cup in Silvaplana, Switzerland.\u00a0<\/strong>After the season, he met with Team GB officials to discuss the future, but uncertainty surrounded Team GB\u2019s funds for its skiers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uksport.gov.uk\/\">UK Sport<\/a>, which distributes funding for Olympic programs, had defunded <a href=\"https:\/\/gbsnowsport.com\/\">GB Snowsport<\/a> \u2014 the national governing body for skiing and snowboarding in the United Kingdom. For years, GB Snowsport had been the primary path for British skiers and snowboarders to reach international and Olympic competition. UK Sport\u2019s decision to defund GB Snowsport resulted in a funding shakeup for Great Britain\u2019s skiers and snowboarders, which left Kenworthy unable to commit to another season with Team GB. Team GB ultimately granted Kenworthy\u2019s request to be released.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kenworthy eventually met with U.S. Ski and Snowboard officials who were open to welcoming him back, but the 2025 eligibility rule remained an obstacle. <\/strong>U.S. Ski &amp; Snowboard Chief of Sport Anouk Patty told ESPN that U.S. Ski and Snowboard submitted the paperwork to get Kenworthy back on Team USA in late April. According to Patty, the paperwork was essentially a \u201clegal brief explaining why [Kenworthy] should be granted an exception to the rule and allowed to come back to the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The paperwork cited two main arguments.\u00a0<\/strong>The first was that Kenworthy was not seeking to compete for a third country, but was looking to return to one he had competed for in the past. The second was that Kenworthy had switched to Great Britain before FIS adopted the 2025 restriction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Over four months after receiving the paperwork, FIS sent a letter to U.S. Ski and Snowboard granting his request.\u00a0<\/strong>Lehmann said that the arguments were both \u201csmart and reasonable,\u201d and that Kenworthy\u2019s history with Team USA and the desire to switch to an old team ultimately led FIS to permit the change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhy not allow an athlete to go back to their original national ski association, which invested a lot in them?\u201d<\/strong> <strong>Lehmann said.<\/strong> \u201cI know exactly what it means to be brought to the top by an NSA, and to want to give back something to the country that made you a famous skier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The move marks one of the FIS\u2019s biggest rule changes following a major leadership transformation within the organization. <\/strong>FIS council member Alexander Ospelt defeated standing president Johan Eliasch in the FIS presidential election back in June in one of skiing\u2019s most dramatic leadership shakeups. Just days before the vote, Lehmann \u2014 who was CEO at the time \u2014 resigned from his position. However, shortly after Ospelt\u2019s election, Lehmann returned to FIS and now serves as the organization\u2019s interim Secretary General.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, with the 2026-27 competition season nearly here, Kenworthy will again compete as a member of Team USA and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team.\u00a0<\/strong>The skier has already received rounding support from his teammates, including a call from fellow Team USA skier Hunter Hess.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt means a lot that they support me coming back,\u201d Kenworthy said.<\/strong> \u201cI want to be a mentor, and there is a really good vibe on the team. It\u2019s a more legitimate program now in a lot of ways, and it feels more inclusive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team will soon head to Europe to begin training.\u00a0<\/strong>And Kenworthy will be right there with them as they prepare for this year\u2019s competition circuit.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_151173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151173\" style=\"width: 1700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151173 lazyload\" src=\"image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAoAAAAFAAQMAAAAWA19JAAAABlBMVEUAAAD\/\/\/+l2Z\/dAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAADBJREFUeNrtwTEBAAAAwqD1T20MH6AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgZlQAABOGKJ6gAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Gus Kenworthy: Team USA or Team GB\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snowbrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/wide-3wx-min.jpg?resize=640%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snowbrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/wide-3wx-min.jpg?w=1700&amp;ssl=1 1700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snowbrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/wide-3wx-min.jpg?resize=600%2C300&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snowbrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/wide-3wx-min.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" data-max-width=\"640\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-eio-rwidth=\"640\" data-eio-rheight=\"320\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151173\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snowbrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/wide-3wx-min.jpg?resize=640%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Gus Kenworthy: Team USA or Team GB\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" data-eio=\"l\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-151173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gus Kenworthy at the 2018 Olympics, representing Team USA. | Credit: Furthermore from Equinox<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy is switching from Team Great Britain back to Team USA. | Credit: Associated Press After representing Great Britain at the past two Winter Olympic Games, freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy is returning to Team USA.\u00a0According to ESPN, the move was recently approved by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) earlier this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,267],"class_list":["post-2165110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-snowbrains-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2165110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2165110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2165110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2165110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}