Good morning and welcome to live coverage of the men's first Alpine Skiing World Cup meet of the season, the Giant Slalom from Soelden.

Thank you so much for joining our live coverage of the first Alpine Skiing World Cup of the season, what a way to begin the season.

The next race will be in around a month.

PINTURAULT WINS!

The Frenchman beats Faivre by 0.54! What a start to the season!

FAIVRE'S DONE IT BY 0.09

It's just Pinturault left!

Fiavre is going down now, this is going to be so tight.

That's a big mistake from Marco Odermatt and he is a way off now. We're down to the last two, the Frenchmen.

Four to go now and we have Zan Kranjec who has gone into the lead!

Clear by 0.07!

Manu Feller is on course and he has to settle for 0.82 off the pace. You can hardly blame him given his wife is currently expecting!

It's another strong showing from the Americans as Tommy Ford goes top by 0.39!

Kristoffersen has over-compensated here. He's pushed far too hard and he's 0.93 down. That is such a shame.

Here comes Kristoffersen...

Ted Ligety has done it! The master goes into the lead by 0.01

Stefan Lutz struggles a bit in the second part of his run and finishes 0.73 off the lead.

America's Ryan Cochran-Siegle, son of American Olympic gold medalist Barbara, goes into third as things stand 0.39 off the pace.

19-year-old Lucas Braathen is the new leader, he is 0.71 ahead now. That's a brilliant effort from the teenager. His time of 1:06.44 is going to be tough to beat.

The light is changing here at Soelden. The sun is moving and it's getting darker on the course. That's going to be interesting to watch.

The crowd lights up as Mayer storms into the top spot, he goes ahead by 0.25s. Another excellent ride for a skier who normally focuses on the speed disciplines.

Aleksander Aamodt Kilde is down now and the speed specialist clocks into second place. He'll be pleased with that on his new Atomic skis. Matthias Mayer next.

Trevor Philp is next up and he does extremely well to stay on his feet after a lapse in concentration. He's skis very hard down the slope and manages to limits his losses.

Leitinger has gone and sets the pace in the second run with a time of 1:06.88 and an overall time of 2:16.20

Austria's Roland Leitinger will get us underway. He came from bib No. 53 so has done very well indeed to get into the top 30.