The final FIS Alpine skiing World Cup races ahead of the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 take place at Špindlerův Mlýn, Czechia, on 24–25 January, with women’s slalom and giant slalom marking a return to the Czechian resort after a three year hiatus.

Team USA’s double Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin extended her 2025-26 slalom win tally to six in seven starts with her victory at the Flachau World Cup in Austria on 13 January, continuing a dominant season in her favoured discipline.

Shiffrin has only missed the top of the slalom podium once this season after coming in second to Swiss world champion Camille Rast in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.

In giant slalom, Shiffrin continues to build, narrowly missing the podium three times this season, finishing fourth, most recently at Kronplatz, Italy, on 20 January.

Shiffrin arrives in Czechia leading both the overall and slalom World Cup standings. She is currently ranked fifth in giant slalom, with Austria’s Julia Scheib atop the discipline standings following her fourth World Cup victory in Kronplatz marking her sixth podium in seven giant slalom starts.

This weekend Shiffrin will race at Špindlerův Mlýn for the fifth time in her career. This is the resort where she made her first World Cup start in 2011 as a 15-year-old with her dad cheering her on. She finished with a DNF in that race, but returned in 2019 to claim victory.

When the event was last held at Špindlerův Mlýn in 2023, Shiffrin added another win and a second-place finish across the slalom doubleheader.

Following this World Cup, Shiffrin will be in action again* at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, which begin on 6 February. The women’s giant slalom will take place on 15 February, withthe  slalom set for 18 February, both at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo.

The World Cup season will resume after with two more slalom races in Are, Sweden (15 March) and Lillehammer, Norway on 24 March to determine who earns the season’s Crystal Globes. 

Find out the Špindlerův Mlýn schedule and how to watch Saturday’s giant slalom and Sunday’s slalom.

*As National Olympic Committees have the exclusive authority for the representation of their respective countries at the Olympic Games, athletes’ participation at the Milano Cortina Games depends on their NOC selecting them to represent their delegation at Milano Cortina 2026.