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In Val d’Isere, there are downhill races on Fridays and Saturdays (every 10.30 am), followed by a Super-G on Sunday (11.00 am / all ORF 1 live races). The Americans were strong in training, but Nicole Schmidhofer and Co. also wanted to fight for the top positions early on.
In the preseason, the Austrians had given up on speed supremacy. In the relegation classification, Stephanie Venier was the best in seventh place, followed by Nina Ortlieb (8th) and Nicole Schmidhofer (9th).