Cracking Start to World Cup Alpine Ski Season

twenty fifth October 2024

Final modified on October twenty ninth, 2024

Switzerland’s Olympic champions Marco Odermatt and Lara Intestine-Behrami are defending their total titles in a season that began on twenty sixth October in Soelden, Austria, and ends 5 months in a while twenty seventh March with the Finals in Solar Valley, USA.

The 2024/25 season appears to be like prefer it may very well be a memorable one within the run-up to the 2026 Winter Olympics.

There are lower than 500 days to go till the Milan-Cortina Video games with precious qualification factors and kind up for grabs.

The US skier Mikaela Shiffrin is trying to set the brand new benchmark with 100 World Cup wins.

So, how did issues pan out on the opening big slalom races?

The Males’s Big Slalom, Sunday twenty seventh October

Within the males’s occasion it was a Norwegian clean-sweep of the rostrum with Alexander Steen Olsen claiming his first World Cup win in big slalom.

Henrik Kristoffersen was second, with Atle Lie McGrath third.

The previous Norwegian racer, Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, who now races for Brazil was fourth.

On his first race again since retiring after the 2018/19 season, Marcel Hirscher who’s now racing for the Netherlands, completed in twenty third place.

The 35-year outdated skier, who has two Olympic golds, seven world titles, and 67 World Cup race wins is again 5 years after retiring.

Maybe extra related than his total ending place was that he was third quickest on the second run.

The reigning total champion Marco Odermatt crashed out on his first run in Soelden.

On Friday Odermatt was named ‘Skier of the Yr’ by the Federation of Ski Journalists.

He received 13 World Cup races final season as he took his third total title in a row.

The organisers are claiming the primary race of the season was a giant success.

“The excitement for Pinheiro Braathen and Hirscher is large and a large plus for the game,” stated the FIS TV Director, Nick Fellows.

“Hirscher being third quickest on the second run and Pinheiro Braathen quickest tells us this story has solely simply begun.”

The Girls’s Big Slalom, Saturday twenty sixth October

The race was received by Federica Brignone from Italy.

It was her twenty eighth World Cup victory and her thirteenth in Big Slalom.

After the primary run in Soelden on Saturday Mikaela Shiffrin was in prime spot.

She completed in fifth place total after a disappointing second run.

On Saturday morning Lara Intestine- Behrami introduced she wouldn’t be racing at Soelden:

Lara Intestine-Behrami is not going to be beginning within the Audi Fis Ski World Cup in Soelden. Wishing her to really feel at her greatest for the upcoming races in America. Let’s go, Lara! 💪🏻#fisalpine pic.twitter.com/cIXQ7vgJdd

— FIS Alpine (@fisalpine) October 26, 2024

Through the weekend, 34,000 spectators had been on the Rettenbach glacier: 16,800 on Saturday and 17,200 on Sunday.

Tv viewers switched on in enormous numbers, with simply over one million watching the lads’s race on Austria’s most important public broadcaster ORF, a market share of 67 p.c.

That was one other document for the season-opener, which, for reference, in contrast favourably with a determine of 685,000 (27 p.c market share) for the Mexican F1 Grand Prix that very same night, additionally on ORF1.

The ladies’s Big Slalom attracted a TV viewers of 622,000, a 47 p.c market share.

The 2024/25 World Cup Season Forward

GB’s Dave Ryding is trying to construct on his best-ever season final winter when he got here seventh total within the slalom.

His first race might be in Levi, Finland, on seventeenth November.

Dave Ryding in Schladming, Jan 2024. Picture © PlanetSKI

One racer lacking this season is Mikaela Shiffrin’s fiancée, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde from Norway, who has stated he is not going to be racing this winter as he recovers from harm.

The feminine Olympic slalom champion, Petra Vlhova from Slovkia, will miss the beginning of the Alpine snowboarding World Cup season as she continues to recuperate from surgical procedure to her proper knee.

The weekend although it was all concerning the Big Slalom with each the lads and the ladies racing on the Rettenbach glacier above Soelden.

World Cup Opening Sölden

Friday, 25.10.24from 17.00  World Cup Get together & drawing of Girls’s bib numbers – Giggijoch Gondola automotive park

Saturday, 26.10.2410.00 – 1st run: Girls’s Big Slalom – Rettenbach Glacier13.00 – 2nd run: Girls’s Big Slalom – Rettenbach Glacierfollowed by presentation of winners & Glacier Partyfrom 17.00 – World Cup Get together, Fan Membership Parade, prize giving ceremony and drawing of Males’s bib numbers – Giggijoch Gondola automotive park

Sunday, 27.10.2410.00 – 1st run: Males’s Big Slalom – Rettenbach Glacier13.00 – 2nd run: Males’s Big Slalom – Rettenbach Glacierfollowed by Males’s award ceremony and prize giving & Glacier Get together

A complete of 38 and 37 particular person occasions are scheduled within the males’s and ladies’s calendar, respectively, with a majority of tech races (slalom, big slalom – 21 and 20) in comparison with pace occasions (super-G, downhill – 17 for each genders).

The World Cup season will take a break from 4th to sixteenth February 2025 for the World Ski Championships in Saalbach, Austria,  the place the mixed staff occasion will make its senior debut forward of that includes at Milan-Cortina 2026 one yr later.

Picture c/o Saalbach World Championships

2024/25 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup calendar – Males

Soelden (Austria): Big Slalom

Levi (Finland): Slalom

Gurgl (Austria): Slalom

Beaver Creek (USA): Downhill , Tremendous-G, Big Slalom

Val d’Isere (France): Big Slalom / Slalom

Val Gardena – Groeden (Italy): Tremendous-G, Downhill

Alta Badia (Italy): Big Slalom, Slalom

Bormio (Italy): Downhill / Tremendous-G

Madonna di Campiglio (Italy): Slalom

Adelboden (Switzerland): Big Slalom / Slalom

Wengen (Switzerland): Tremendous-G / Downhill / Slalom

Kitzbuehel (Austria): Tremendous-G / Downhill / Slalom

Schladming (Austria) Big Slalom / Slalom

Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany): Downhill

Crans Montana (Switzerland): Downhill / Tremendous G

Kvitfjell (Norway): Downhill / Tremendous-G

Hafjell (Norway): Big Slalom / Slalom

Solar Valley (United States): Finals (All disciplines)

Complete: 38Slalom: 12Giant Slalom: 9Super-G: 8Downhill: 9

2024/25 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup calendar – Girls

Soelden (Austria): Big Slalom

Levi (Finland): Slalom

Gurgl (Austria): Slalom

30 November – 1 December 2024

Killington (USA): Big Slalom / Slalom

Tremblant (Canada): Big Slalom (2x)

Beaver Creek (USA): Downhill , Tremendous-G

Saint Moritz (Switzerland): Tremendous-G (2x)

Semmering (Austria): Big Slalom, Slalom

Kranjska Gora (Slovenia): Big Slalom / Slalom

St. Anton (Austria): Downhill / Tremendous-G

Flachau (Austria): Slalom (Evening)

Cortina d’Ampezzo (Italy): Downhill / Tremendous-G

Kronplatz – Plan de Corones (Italy): Big Slalom

Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany): Downhill / Tremendous-G

Courchevel (France): Slalom (Evening)

Crans Montana (Switzerland): Downhill (2x) / Tremendous-G

Sestriere (Italy): Big Slalom / Slalom

28 February – 2 March 2025

Kvitfjell (Norway): Downhill (2x) / Tremendous-G

Are (Sweden): Big Slalom / Slalom

La Thuile (Italy): Downhill / Tremendous-G

Solar Valley (United States): Finals (All disciplines)

Complete: 37Slalom: 10Giant Slalom: 10Super-G: 9Downhill: 8

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2025 in Saalbach, Austria – Medal occasions Schedule

4 February: Staff Parallel event6 February: Girls’s Tremendous-G7 February: Males’s Tremendous-G8 February: Girls’s Downhill9 February: Males’s Downhill11 – 12 February: Staff mixed occasion (Downhill/Slalom)13 February: Girls’s Big Slalom14 February: Males’s Big Slalom15 February: Girls’s Slalom16 February: Males’s Slalom

Data topic to vary. An up to date calendar could be discovered on the FIS Web site.

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