The 2024-25 Alpine skiing World Cup season, featuring Mikaela Shiffrin, airs live from October through March on NBC Sports, Peacock and skiandsnowboard.live. The season starts this weekend with women’s and men’s giant slaloms in Sölden,

Alpine skier Marcel Hirscher announced on Friday he will come out of his retirement to compete at the World Cup opener in Soelden, Austria on Sunday after a five-year absence. Hirscher, 35, retired in September 2019 as one of Austria's most successful skiers,

Hirscher did not have to qualify for the World Cup again through lower-ranked FIS races and will start Sunday’s race with a bib number in the lower 30s thanks to a wild card rule introduced in July by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation.

SOELDEN, Austria (AP) — Austrian skiing great Marcel Hirscher has confirmed his start in Sunday’s season-opening giant slalom, making his return to competitive skiing after 2,051 days. “Back to the game that we love ... I’ve decided, I do this,” Hirscher says in a video posted Friday on his ski company’s Instagram account.

In March he announced his comeback for Brazil, a federation that has not been represented in Alpine skiing’s World Cup since 2016. Neither has Brazil won an Olympic medal in winter sports. “It’s kind of like starting this sport all over again, you are introducing the entire sport to a new target group,” Braathen said.

Marcel Hirscher plans to race on the Alpine skiing World Cup on Sunday for the first time in five years. Hirscher, an eight-time World Cup overall champion who in April announced a comeback, confirmed Friday that he will race Sunday's season-opening giant slalom in Sölden,