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Three rulebooks, one race, and a clock that does not stop.

When a rules question comes up, get the right rule from the right book, FIS, national, or provincial, scoped to the level and the jurisdiction, with the article cited and ready to show the jury.

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The problem

Nobody handed you the rulebook. They just handed you the responsibility.

Maybe your club tied volunteer hours to registration and now you are working a gate. Maybe your kid got DSQ'd and no one could tell you why. Maybe you are simply all in on this sport and tired of not understanding its rules.

Either way you are facing three layers that all might apply, FIS, national, and provincial, article-numbered and rewritten most years, and your honest options today are a cold phone full of PDFs or a guess.

What Hans does

Reads up the stack, most specific first

It works out which rule actually governs this race, at this level, in this jurisdiction, instead of handing back a generic answer that may not apply.

Cites the article, every time

You get the rule and the citation, so you can check it yourself and show it to the jury. Hans never answers a rules question without telling you where the answer comes from.

From the start gate to the finish

Protests, equipment, course-setting, the questions that come up before and during a race, all answered the same blended, cited way.

Hans is not the jury

It is a reference, not the authority. It gives you a fast, cited place to stand. The referee and the technical delegate still decide. That line does not move.

Accuracy is the whole job

A rules answer is only worth something if it is right. Hans is kept current to the season and scoped to the level and jurisdiction of the race in front of you, because with rules, close enough is wrong.

What it will not do

It needs a signal to answer. And it will not make the call for you. It hands you a cited starting point and stays out of the way of the people whose job it is to rule.

FAQ

Questions officials ask

Is the rule it gives me current?
Yes. The rule base is kept current to the season, and every answer is scoped to the level and jurisdiction of the race in front of you. With rules, close enough is wrong.
Does it replace the referee or the jury?
No. Hans is a reference, not the authority. It gives you a fast, cited place to stand, and the referee and the technical delegate still make the call.
Which rulebooks does it cover?
FIS, your national association, and your provincial precisions, read most specific first, so you get the rule that actually governs this race, at this level, in this jurisdiction.
Does it give me the exact wording from the rulebook?
It gives you the rule and the article it comes from, so you can open the book and check it yourself. It points you to the source rather than reproducing it.
Is this just a ChatGPT wrapper?
No. ChatGPT answers from the open internet. Coach Hans reads the actual rulebooks, works out which one governs your race, and cites the article every time, so you can verify it yourself. There are guardrails and checks behind every answer to keep it accurate, because with rules, close enough is wrong.

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