The 2025–2026 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Slalom season will begin with Women's and Men's races on the 'Levi Black' slope in Levi, Finland, on 15–16 November. Slalom is the oldest and most technically demanding competition in Alpine Skiing.

On Wednesday, 29 October, FIS launched the first episode of Alpine Pulse – Unplugged, a new podcast revealing the people behind the Alpine Ski World Cup. Alpine Pulse is the official weekly podcast from the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS). Hosted by former racer Nick Fellows and produced by Maniac Studios, it features in-depth interviews with top athletes about their triumphs and struggles on and off the slopes.

Marco Odermatt kicked off the new season with another victory in the Alpine Ski World Cup Opener in Soelden. The 28-year-old Swiss skier, who has won at the Rettenbach Glacier three times (in 2021, 2022, and 2025), is now tied with Hermann Maier for the most wins in Sölden.

Austrian Julia Scheib's victory today on the Rettenbach Glacier in Soelden, the first of her Alpine Ski World Cup career, ended the Austrian Women's Team's long drought in the Giant Slalom.

After months of anticipation, the Giant Slalom in Soelden marks the beginning of the new World Cup season for Men. The favorites to win the 2025 race on the Rettenbach glacier include Loic Meillard, Henrik Kristoffersen, Lucas Braathen, and Marco Odermatt, the Giant Slalom Alpine Ski World Cup winner.

The Women's Giant Slalom kicks off the new Alpine Ski World Cup season, and the favorites to win the 2025 race on the Rettenbach Glacier are Lara Gut-Behrami, Mikaela Shiffrin, and Alice Robinson.

The most successful skiers at the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing 2022 were Austrian Johannes Strolz, Katharina Liensberger, and Matthias Mayer. Michelle Gisin (Alpine combined) was able to repeat her win from PyeongChang four years earlier.

For the first time since the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, when Super G was added and combined returned, a new event was added to the Alpine skiing program with the mixed team event, but the combined event was to be held for the last time

Following their disappointment at the previous Games, Austria proved to be the top Alpine skiing nation with nine medals, three of them gold, ahead of the United States (five medals, two of which were gold) and their traditional rivals, Switzerland (three medals, two of which were gold).

Bode Miller of the U.S. and Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway won three medals: a gold medal, a silver medal, and a bronze medal. German skier Maria Riesch was Vancouver's sole double gold medalist in 2010.

The races of the Alpine Ski World Cup Season Opener Soelden will be held again in the Rettenbach Glacier World Cup Racecourse

On Saturday, October 25, all eyes will turn to the majestic Rettenbach Glacier in Soelden for the opening event of the Alpine Ski World Cup

The 2006 Olympic Games were particularly satisfactory for the Austrian skiers winning a total of 14 medals. Two skiers from Austria won two gold medals in Turin: Michaela Dorfmeister and Benjamin Raich. Dorfmeister won the gold medal in the Downhill and the Super-G. Raich won gold medals in Slalom and Giant Slalom.

In the Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games, Janica Kostelic was to become the first woman to win four alpine skiing medals at the same Games, and her three golds were also an unprecedented achievement in the sport.

Katja Seizinger led the individual medal table in Nagano 1998, with two gold medals and a bronze, while Hermann Maier was the most successful male skier, with two gold medals.

The Games were the first to be held in a different year from the Summer Olympics, the first and only one to be held two years after the previous Winter Games, and the most recent to be held in a small town. The Games were the second Winter Games hosted in Norway, after the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.

Petra Kronberger of Austria led the individual medal table with two gold medals in Slalom and the Alpine Combined, while Alberto Tomba of Italy was the most successful male skier with two medals, one gold in Giant Slalom and one silver in the Slalom.

The Alpine Skiing Olympic Winter Games program was expanded in Calgary 1988 from three to five events with the inclusion of the Super-G and the return of the Alpine combined.

Yugoslavia won its first-ever Winter Olympic medal at these Games, with Jure Franko sending the crowds wild by coming second in the Men’s Giant Slalom. The USA’s Phil Mahre won the gold medal in the men’s slalom, with his twin brother, Steve, finishing in second place.

Ingemar Stenmark and Hanni Wenzel were the highlights of Alpine Skiing in the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid.