Stifel Copper Cup GS podium / GEPA photos
A Third Olympic-Season Large Slalom Check
The boys return to the Birds of Prey for the third large slalom of the 2026 World Cup and Olympic season. The race will probably be held on Sunday, December 7, giving the world’s finest GS specialists a decisive early-season take a look at on one of the vital demanding surfaces on the circuit.
Beaver Creek arrives at a pivotal second. Two GS races are already full, the standings are tight, and the sector is filled with early-season winners, constant level scorers, and the reigning World Champion — all preventing for momentum earlier than the Olympic break.
Males’s Large Slalom Podiums — 2026 Season
Prime-10 GS Standings After Two Races
Season Context
That is the third of seven World Cup large slaloms earlier than the Olympic break, and each race issues. Every end result helps decide which athletes will earn Olympic GS begins in Bormio — and what begin numbers they may carry into the Video games. The sector additionally positive factors one other layer of stress with Raphael Haaser (AUT), the reigning 2025 World Champion in large slalom, who brings championship-level confidence into each run.
The schedule stays tight. The following GS takes place on December 13 in Val d’Isère, giving athletes little restoration time because the Olympic-season calendar accelerates.
North People
River Radamus is the one North American to qualify for the second run in each large slaloms this season. The longtime chief of the U.S. males’s GS staff opened with twenty first in Sölden and pushed to fifteenth in Copper Mountain. Radamus grew up simply quarter-hour from Beaver Creek, including one other layer of pleasure as he chases his first top-10 of the Olympic season.
The Stifel U.S. Ski Group brings a full home-snow roster: Bridger Gile, one other Colorado native, together with Ryder Sarchett, Isaiah Nelson, and Patrick Kenney. George Steffey, a former Stifel U.S. Ski Group athlete now racing independently with International Racing, completes the squad. All are aiming for a spot within the high 30 to earn a second run.
Canada begins Erik Learn and Raphaël Lessard. Learn stays one in every of North America’s most constant GS skiers, having scored World Cup large slalom factors in 10 straight seasons and certified for 4 World Cup large slalom Finals. His Twenty seventh-place end in Copper Mountain strengthened his probabilities of being chosen for the Olympics. Lessard steps in after Liam Wallace injured his shoulder in the course of the week and is sidelined. Lessard now will get the chance to check himself on a demanding GS monitor.
Course setters — First run: Mike Pircher (BRA) Second run: Peter Fill (ITA)
Males’s GS Race
The boys’s large slalom is ready for Sunday, Dec. 7. Run one begins at 12:00 p.m. ET / 9:00 a.m. PT, adopted by run two at 3:00 p.m. ET / 12:00 p.m. PT. Followers in Nice Britain can tune in at 17:00 for the primary run and 20:00 for the second.
The best way to Watch
United States: United States: Stay protection on Outdoors TV (free)Canada: Stream on CBC Sports activities.Nice Britain: Stream on Discovery+
North People Racing: World Cup Begin Checklist — FIS Rank Proven if Outdoors Prime 30 on WCSL
River Radamus, WCSL sixteenth, Stifel USST, Ski and Snowboard Membership Vail
Bridger Gile, WCSL 54th, FIS Rank 52nd, Stifel USST, Ski and Snowboard Membership Vail, HEAD, Oakley
Erik Learn, WCSL,forty fifth, FIS Rank 56th, World Racing Academy, Banff Alpine Racers, College of Denver, Atomic, SYNC
Isaiah Nelson, FIS Rank 59th, Stifel USST, Buck Hill Ski Group, SHRED
Ryder Sarchett, FIS Rank 62nd, Stifel USST, College of Colorado, Solar Valley Ski Academy, Solar Valley Ski Schooling Basis
George Steffey, FIS Rank 87th, USA unbiased, International Racing, Stratton Mountain Faculty, Marker/Völkl, SYNC
Patrick Kenney, WCSL forty third, FIS 88th, , Stifel USST, College of New Hampshire, Burke Moutain Academy, Marker/Völkl, SYNC, SHRED
Raphael Lessard, FIS Rank 197, College of Utah, Membership de Ski Bromont, HEAD
