Skiing, the World Championships begin with the team parallel: favourites and TV times

Saalbach, 3 February 2025 – Everything is ready for Saalbach for the 2025 edition of Alpine Ski World Championships. The world championship will be held in Austria and will run from February 4 to February 16, with the first week dedicated to the speed events (super g and downhill), the second to the technical disciplines (giant and slalom). First, however, there is the classic team race that the FIS has been organizing for a few years now in parallel and mixed. In fact, two men and two women will compete and for Italy there is an immediate chance of a medal given that in 2019 the national team managed to take a bronze in Are with Vinatzer, Maurberger, Della Mea and Curtoni. Two of the medal winners from six years ago will also be competing on Tuesday 4 February, Vinatzer and Della Mea, who the technical staff has decided to pair with Of The Vine, another tightrope walker, and the young Giorgia CollombIt will be difficult, but there is a small chance of a first world medal.

The favorite nations

Italy starts as an outsider, not the absolute favorite, but with a chance of a podium finish. Vinatzer it expresses itself well in the short and narrow of a parallel, From the Vine he has great speed of foot and also Lara Della Mea comes from the 2019 podium and the recent encouraging results. It is a discipline that is not practiced in the World Cup and the ability to adapt will be crucial. The young Collomb who is growing well and could be carried away by the positive team trend. The reigning champions are instead the Americans who won in 2023 in Courchevel with Tommy Ford, River Radamus, Paula Moltzan and Nina O'Brien and remain among the favorites of the contest, together with the Norwegians, silver in 2023, and the Swiss, Swedes and obviously Austrians, ready to immediately take a medal in front of their home crowd. The unknowns, in a parallel where you compete against each other, are always the order of the day and in addition to speed you will have to be careful not to go out. The competition will be a single-elimination table with eighth-finals, quarter-finals, semifinals and final. For each heat won, a point will be taken and in the event of two draws, the sum of the times will decree the winning team.

Where to see it on TV

The mixed team parallel in Saalbach, valid for the 2025 Alpine Ski World Championships, will be held on Tuesday 4 February with a start time of 15.15:58. The race will take place on the final stretch of the Cristallo di Neve slope in the famous Austrian resort. Live on free-to-air Raisport Hd, channel 1 of digital terrestrial and streaming on Raiplay. Live for a fee on Eurosport 210, channel XNUMX of Sky, streaming on Sky Go, Discovery Plus and Dazn.