Event Notes: IPC Alpine Skiing Sets Date For Para-Snowboard World Cup Finals

Int'l Paralympic Committee Alpine Skiing, the global governing body of para-snowboard, announced on Friday that the para-snowboard World Cup Finals will be held in San Martino di Castrozza, Italy, from March 9-12. At the same time, an additional World Cup event in Maribor, Slovenia, was also added to the calendar from March 2-6, bringing the number of World Cup events in '14-15 to five (IPC). ... World Rugby "will trial a new Hawk-Eye system to protect player welfare and aid decision making and may adopt it at the 2015 World Cup in England and Wales." The new system "will be tested in selected Pro12 fixtures from next week in a bid to improve and enhance the accuracy of existing television match official systems." Referees "will still direct queries to the TMO but they will have access to an enhanced Hawk-Eye 'SMART Replay' technology which affords them simultaneous angles in slow motion" (REUTERS, 2/14).