Swiss skier Camille Rast achieved the best time on Saturday in the first round of the giant Kranjska Gora (Slovenia) counting for the World Cup.
Bib part 1 for the first race of the year 2026, five weeks before the start of the Milan-Cortina Olympic Games, Camille Rast was the strongest on an icy track despite several errors. The Swiss, world slalom champion, is ahead of the American Paula Moltzan (+ 33/100th) and the Albanian Lara Colturi (+ 37/100th) in the first round.
Just behind (4th at 38/100th), the American ski queen Mikaela Shiffrin had a very solid round in the giant, a discipline where the skier with 106 World Cup victories has struggled to express herself since her terrible fall in November 2024 during the Killington giant.
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Since her fall, which caused an abdominal injury and a mental blockage in giant, Shiffrin has regained victory in slalom – a discipline in which she soars above the competition – but has not returned to the podium in giant.
The first round of Kranjska Gora was marked on Saturday by a new retirement from New Zealander Alice Robinson, a week after her exit from the track in Semmering. The giant’s world vice-champion has never been in the running and her new outing takes her away from the head of the specialty rankings. The second round is scheduled from 1 p.m.
