twenty third October 2025
The season begins this weekend at Soelden with a brand new GB racer, Freddy Carrick-Smith, in motion. The very best skiers on the earth will compete for podiums, globes and FIS factors in a season highlighted by the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics in February 2026. NEW
GB Athletes to Watch
All eyes will likely be on GB’s slalom specialist Dave Ryding in his ultimate season.
The Rocket is giving it one final push as he prepares to retire.
Dave Ryding. Picture © PlanetSKI
He’s joined by common group mates Billy Main and Laurie Taylor.
All three have been on the London Snow Present final weekend.
Billy Main, Laurie Taylor & Dave Ryding. Picture c/o PlanetSKI.
Right here’s Dave’s ideas on the season forward:
The brand new GB child on the block is 18-year previous Freddy Carrick-Smith who races within the opening World Cup races in Soelden in Austria this coming weekend, Sunday October twenty sixth.
Freddy Carrick-Smith. Picture c/o Crew Carrick-Smith.
He’s competing in large slalom.
Freddy was additionally on the London Snow Present along with his twin brother Zak and elder brother Luca.
Zak, Freddy and Luca at London Snow Present. Picture c/o PlanetSKI.
Listed here are Freddy’s ideas on the race this weekend:
We reported on the opposite alpine hopefuls earlier on PlanetSKI:
GB Snowsport posted some out-of-season sporting updates over the summer season:
World Cup Alpine Ski Racing:
Olympic champions Marco Odermatt and Mikaela Shiffrin are among the many stars in motion throughout a complete of 75 particular person occasions – 38 for males and 37 for ladies.
The World Cup tour begins with the standard opening large slaloms in Sölden, Austria, on 25–26 October.
It concludes with the Finals in Lillehammer, from 19–25 March.
The athletes head to North America in November, with Copper Mountain, Colorado, making its return to the Alpine elite calendar for the primary time in over 20 years.
Again in Europe, the tour will go to a few of the sport’s most iconic venues:
Val Gardena (Italy)Val d’Isère (France)Adelboden and Wengen (Switzerland)Kitzbühel and Schladming (Austria)
The Planai race course in Schladming, Jan 2024, forward of the lads’s GS night time race. Picture © PlanetSKI
The Italian resort of Tarvisio, which hosted the 2023 Winter EYOF (European Youth Olympic Winter Competition) and the 2025 FIS Alpine Junior World Championships, will make its World Cup debut in January.
The circuit will pause from 6-22 February for the 2026 Winter Olympics, with the Stelvio Ski Centre in Bormio internet hosting the lads’s occasions and the Tofane Alpine Snowboarding Centre in Cortina staging the ladies’s competitions.
The season will then proceed with a number of European stops, together with the lads’s velocity races within the famed German resort of Garmisch, earlier than wrapping up in Lillehammer, Norway on the slopes that hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Total World Cup season preview from Olympics.com
The Males:
For the second season in a row, Marco Odermatt begins the brand new marketing campaign because the defending holder of 4 titles: total, downhill, Tremendous-G and large slalom (GS).
The Swiss star is chasing his fifth consecutive massive Crystal Globe, which might place him second on the all-time listing alongside Luxembourg legend Marc Girardelli and behind Marcel Hischer with eight.
Odermatt leads a robust Swiss contingent that dominated the velocity disciplines in each the final World Cup and World Championships.
All eyes will likely be on rising star Franjo von Allmen, the reigning downhill world champion from Saalbach 2025, who may problem “King Odi” within the downhill standings after ending runner-up final season.
Austria’s Vincent Kriechmayr prevented a Swiss podium sweep in final yr’s Tremendous-G standings, whereas Canada’s James ‘Jack’ Crawford – winner of the distinguished downhill race in Kitzbühel – is one other speedster to look at.
Within the technical disciplines, large slalom and slalom, Henrik Kristoffersen – the slalom globe holder and runner-up within the total standings – headlines a gifted Norwegian group, with Atle Braathen and Timon Haugan additionally chasing podiums and victories this season.
One other Swiss skier, Loïc Meillard – third total and on the rostrum in each slalom and GS rankings – is anticipated to be a robust contender for the globes.
In the meantime, Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, after securing Brazil’s first-ever World Cup podium final season, is able to compete for the general title and can add a number of Tremendous-G occasions to his programme.
Austrian-born legend Hirscher, who returned to competitors final season beneath the Netherlands’ flag, resumed snow coaching a month in the past after a severe knee harm minimize his comeback quick.
He’s now aiming to qualify for his fourth Olympic Video games.
Gurgl World Cup. Picture © PlanetSKI
The Ladies:
With Brignone sidelined for at the least the primary few months, two former total champions – Lara Intestine-Behrami and Mikaela Shiffrin – are anticipated to battle for the massive Crystal Globe.
Switzerland’s Intestine-Behrami, the reigning Tremendous-G World Cup champion, completed runner-up within the 2025 marketing campaign and goals to cap her ultimate season earlier than retirement with a 3rd total title.
Shiffrin concluded final season with 4 victories, all in slalom, extending her file to 101 World Cup wins.
Her marketing campaign, nonetheless, was disrupted by a crash within the Killington race, after which she struggled to regain kind, significantly in large slalom.
The US athlete completed sixteenth within the total standings — her lowest rating since her debut season in 2012 (forty third).
Gurgl World Cup. Picture © PlanetSKI
This yr, Shiffrin returns with renewed confidence after a productive summer season of coaching and plans to renew competing in Tremendous-G, albeit on a decreased schedule.
“I centered quite a bit on large slalom this summer season, and I really feel a lot stronger now than on the finish of final season,” she just lately advised reporters at a sponsor occasion.
She is concentrating on a sixth total title and a record-extending ninth slalom globe.
Following her comeback final season, Lindsey Vonn stays one of many largest attracts within the ladies’s area.
The 40-year-old ski legend has her sights set on her farewell Winter Video games, however she’s already proven she will be able to nonetheless compete with the most effective within the velocity disciplines, reaching the rostrum in her final Tremendous-G race in Solar Valley.
Amongst Vonn’s rivals are Italy’s Sofia Goggia, who is keen to reclaim the downhill crown after two years, and her American teammate Lauren Macuga, who will look to construct on her breakout marketing campaign.
In slalom, globe winner Zrinka Ljutic of Croatia leads the Gen Z expertise wave alongside Swiss world champion Camille Rast.
One other gold medallist from Saalbach, Alice Robinson of New Zealand, has rediscovered her high GS kind after a couple of troublesome seasons and is concentrating on her first globe within the self-discipline, whereas 18-year-old prodigy Lara Colturi seems to be to proceed making historical past for Albania after claiming her first World Cup podiums final season.
Gurgl World Cup. Picture © PlanetSKI
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 2025/26 calendar
Disciplines: DH – downhill, SG – tremendous G, GS – large slalom, SL – slalom, AC – group mixed
Desk: Olympics.comSource: FIS
25 Oct 2025WomenSölden GS26 Oct 2025MenSölden GS15 Nov 2025WomenLevi SL16 Nov 2025MenLevi SL22 Nov 2025MenGurgl SL23 Nov 2025WomenGurgl SL27–28 Nov 2025MenCopper Mountain SG, GS29–30 Nov 2025WomenCopper Mountain GS, SL4–7 Dec 2025MenBeaver Creek DH x2, SG, GS6–7 Dec 2025WomenMont-Tremblant GS x212–14 Dec 2025WomenSt. Moritz DH x2, SG13–14 Dec 2025MenVal d’Isère GS, SL16 Dec 2025WomenCourchevel SL19–20 Dec 2025MenVal Gardena DH, SG20–21 Dec 2025WomenVal d’Isère DH, SG21–22 Dec 2025MenAlta Badia GS, SL27 Dec 2025MenLivigno SG28–29 Dec 2025WomenSemmering GS, SL3–4 Jan 2026WomenKranjska Gora GS, SL7 Jan 2026MenMadonna di Campiglio SG10–11 Jan 2026WomenZauchensee DH, SG10–11 Jan 2026MenAdelboden GS, SL13 Jan 2026WomenFlachau SL16–18 Jan 2026MenWengen DH, SG, SL17–18 Jan 2026WomenTarvisio DH, SG20 Jan 2026WomenKronplatz GS23–25 Jan 2026MenKitzbühel DH, SG, SL24–25 Jan 2026WomenŠpindlerův Mlýn GS, SL27–28 Jan 2026MenSchladming GS, SL30–31 Jan 2026WomenCrans Montana DH, SG1 Feb 2026MenCrans Montana DH6–22 Feb 2026BothCortina d’AmpezzoBormio(Winter Olympics)DH, SG, GS, SL, AC28 Feb–1 Mar 2026WomenSoldeu DH, SG28 Feb–1 Mar 2026MenGarmisch-Partenkirchen DH, SG7–8 Mar 2026WomenVal di Fassa DH, SG7–8 Mar 2026MenKranjska Gora GS, SL14–15 Mar 2026WomenÅre GS, SL14–15 Mar 2026MenCourchevel DH, SG21–25 Mar 2026BothLillehammer (Finals)DH, SG, GS, SL
Disciplines: DH – downhill, SG – tremendous G, GS – large slalom, SL – slalom, AC – group mixed
Supply: FIS
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