Question

Explain Briefly FIH. 

Answer 1

1. The Federation International de Hockey commonly known by the acronym FIH is the international governing body of field hockey and indoor field hockey. It's headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland.
2. FIH is responsible for field hockey's major international tournaments, notably the World Cup. FIH was founded on 7 January 1924 in Paris by Paul Leautey, who became the first President, in response to field hockey's omission from the programme of the 1924 Summer Olympics.
3. First members complete to join the seven founding members were Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain and Switzerland.
4. In 1982, the FIH merged with the International Federation of Women's Hockey Associations (IFWHA), which had been founded in 1927 by Australia, Denmark, England, Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, the United States and Wales.
5. The organisation is based in Lausanne, Switzerland since 2005, having moved from Brussels, Belgium