We set off again to start a new year which will culminate with the Olympic Games in Milan Cortina. The women’s Alpine Skiing World Cup is back on track for a weekend dedicated to technical disciplines and chooses the historic Kranjska Gora to officially inaugurate 2026. The famous Slovenian resort is hosting the giant slalom on January 3rd and the special slalom on January 4th on the Podkoren slope.. On Saturday the first heat will start at 10:00, while the second will start at 1:00. The times change slightly on Sunday with the first descent at 09:30 and the second at 12:15.
In the last event, on the snows of Semmering, Julia Scheib established herself in front of the friendly public preceding the Swiss Camille Rast in the sprint, author of an excellent comeback in the second heat, and the Swedish Sara Hector, leading the race after the first descent. The Austrian thus took advantage of the premature exit of New Zealander Alice Robinson to take the lead in the specialty rankings.
Mikaela Shiffrin’s unstoppable dominance continues between the narrow postsfive victories in as many races played, although on the Austrian snows the American, only fourth at the end of the first test, he had to show off a second capital test for succeed in fold lto resistance of a leathery Camille Rastsold for just nine cents.
On the blue front, further confirmations in giant slalom are expected for Lara Della Mea and Sofia Goggia who, while waiting to understand what the evolution of Federica Brignone’s recovery will be, continue to gain positions and show excellent consistency of performance. The situation in the special with only Della Mea and Peterlini seems more complicated which up to now they have shown be able to consistently achieve qualification for the second heatbut they need a good result to lower their starting numbers. The excellent signs highlighted during their debut on the major circuit could lead to a second chance for the very young Anna Trockercapable of coming close to qualifying for giant slalom, and Giada D’Antoniowhich came out in the first heat when it was in full battle to enter the top thirty.
The hope of the fans can only be to start 2026 with two days of pure adrenaline thanks to the tests of their idols and the Slovenian track seems to be able to offer all the conditions to offer emotions and races close to the edge of seconds.
How to follow events on TV? The races will be broadcast live on Rai2 and RaiSport + HD based on the programming, live streaming on RaiPlay, Eurosport 1, Discovery+, Sky Go, NOW TV, DAZN. OA Sport will offer the live text broadcast of each heat or race.
ALPINE SKIING WORLD CUP CALENDAR 2025-2026
Saturday 3 January 29
Ore 10:00 Kranjska Gora receives the manche slalom giant femminile
Ore 13.00 second manche slalom giant femminile Kranjska Gora
Sunday 4 January
At 09.30 the first manche slalom speciale femminile Kranjska Gora
12.15 pm second round of the women’s special slalom Kranjska Gora
WORLD CUP 2025 PROGRAMME: HOW TO SEE THE COMPETITIONS ON TV AND STREAMING
Live TV: Rai2, RaiSport + HD free-to-air (based on programming needs)
Live streaming: RaiPlay; Eurosport 1, Discovery+, Sky Go, NOW TV, DAZN
Live text broadcast: OA Sport
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