In our first review episode of the winter, officially brought to you by Ski Racing Media, Alan and I were joined by Canadians Britt Janyk and William St-Germain to review all the action from Solden.

We also welcomed British teenager Freddy Carrick-Smith back to the show to discuss his historic World Cup performance in the men's competition.

Stay tuned for more as the 2026/27 season kicks off!

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In this episode, officially brought to you by Ski Racing Media, Alan and I welcomed 2021 world slalom champion Sebastian Foss-Solevaag to the show to preview the Solden giant slaloms this weekend.

We analyse the key contenders and several high profile returns to the World Cup most notably, Alexander Steen Olsen and Petra Vlhova.During the episode we also hear from both Alice Robinson and Freddy Carrick-Smith with their thoughts from last week ahead of the season opener.We give our predictions on both races with so many names to choose from, stay tuned to see who we pick.

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In another special, annual episode, officially brought to you by Ski Racing Media, Alan and I welcomed Ian Findlay back to the show to preview the men's season ahead.

With Solden now three days away the countdown is on to the start of another great campaign.

We discussed the battles facing Marco Odermatt to retain all four Crystal Globe titles in 2027 with a home World Championships on the horizon.

We also chatted around the challengers; von Allmen, Franzoni, Kriechmayr & the new WC GS champion Lucas Pinheiro Braathen.

Before predictions we analysed all the top slalom contenders of which there are plenty & finally we gave our globe champions and potential outsiders for the season.

Stay tuned!

We'll be live on YouTube tonight with a former world champion to preview the race weekend in Solden, so join us LIVE!

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In this special annual episode, brought to you by Ski Racing Media, Alan and I welcomed Katie Twible back to the show to preview the 2026/27 women's World Cup season.Discipline-by-discipline we analyzed the key talking points with less than a week to go until the new season starts.We discussed Mikaela Shiffrin's decision to race fewer slaloms, the early season absences of Federica Brignone, Sofia Goggia and now, Valerie Grenier.We also give our predictions and thoughts on the globe champions in 2027 so stay tuned until the end to hear our picks.This episode is officially brought to you by Ski Racing Media, visit their website now for all the latest in the build-up to Soelden.This episode is also partnered with Ski Cosmos - a ski simulator in Vancouver, British Colombia.

In this episode, officially brought to you by Ski Racing Media, Alan and I welcomed Belgian number one, Sam Maes, back to the show in our final interview episode before the season starts.

Sam firstly details the new team he will train with this season following the dissolution of Team Global Racing at the end of last season, Maes will continue to work with former coach Paul Epstein under his new position with the US team.

Maes also spoke ahead of Solden in the first race of another World Cup season as he hopes to hit the ground running in 2026/27.

We also share updates on next weekend's races and the achilles injury that Aleksander Aamodt Kilde sustained on Wednesday while downhill training in Chile.

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In this episode, officially brought to you by Ski Racing Media, Alan and I welcomed one of the newest member of Team Ester Ledecka in Austrian coach Charly Pichler.

He chatted about the successful camp in Chile where Ledecka was getting used to her new HEAD equipment.

Charly also discussed the other new members of the team that hope to guide Ledecka back towards World Cup and World Championship success in the upcoming season in both downhill and super-G.

In part two, Alan & I dissect this week's news topics including Markus Waldner stepping down from his role as FIS Men's Chief of Race, Petra Vlhova's comeback, Lucas Pinheiro Braathen's discipline expansion and what this might mean for the wider men's World Cup tour and more.

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In this episode, officially brought to you by Ski Racing Media, Alan and I chatted to Luca de Aliprandini about all things World Cup, giant slalom and the Italian team.

In part one we gave some big news updates with Marco Schwarz dropping and Mikaela Shiffrin reducing their slalom racing as well as key returns to snow for both Manuel Feller and Lauren Macuga.

In the conversation with de Aliprandini we explored the best giant slalom racers he's competed against during his 15 years on tour.

We also spoke about his new wife, Michelle Gisin, and how her progress towards a potential comeback is growing.

Luca also went into detail on last season's lack of high-level results and how he hopes to bounce back into the world's top 30.

This is a great conversation with one of the most consistent giant slalom skiers in the last decade and more.

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In this episode, officially brought to you by Ski Racing Media, Alan and I chatted with Ski Actu's Johan Tachet discussing Wednesday's Swiss-Ski press conferences.We analysed the key takeaways from what Marco Odermatt, Malorie Blanc, Michelle Gisin and more told the press with Johan part of the Ski Actu team that were in all the press conferences.Alan and I also dissect some of this week's key news items including the acceptance of Marcel Hirscher's wildcard for the 2026/27 season, which we now understand includes four starts respectively in giant slalom and slalom.We also chat about the FIS press release that dropped on Thursday citing the costs that have led to a budget reduction ahead of Alexander Ospelt's presidency.In part three, we give a final round-up of the 2026 southern hemisphere action with the Corralco South American Cup speed events with impressive performances from Brits and Americans alike.This episode is officially brought to you by Ski Racing Media. Visit their website now for all the latest ski racing news to take you to the season and beyond.This episode is also presented by Ski Cosmos - a ski simulator in Vancouver, British Colombia and Ski Actu. Visit https://skiactu.ch/discipline/ski-alpin/ for all the latest following this week's press conferences.