Good morning and welcome to live coverage of the very first Alpine Skiing World Cup of the 2019-20 season! Hope you're all as excited as I am!

And we have a new leader!

Last year's winner Tessa Worley has gone into the lead with a new best time of 1:09.13

Great start from the Frenchwoman!

Bit of rust from Wendy Holdener in her run she's finished 0.60 behind Vlhova.

It's the world champion Petra Vlhova who gets us underway and she sets the pace with a time of 1:09.36

Prediction time!

It's hard to look past Shiffrin to be honest. She was crowned the skier of the year before the race weekend and she is the queen of the slopes.

Petra Vlhova looks to be her closest challenger, particularly in the slaloms, Super-G might be far more interesting with Goggia back and fully fit.

Finlay Mickel and Nick Fellows are on the ground and in the commentary booth for us today and here's Finlay's report from the course!

And we chatted to Ester Ledecka about what on earth you can do after doing the impossible...

We have more videos as well with Sofia Goggia talking about her return from injury and how she tries to balance her risk-taking nature with her newfound experience.

And speaking of we were at Atomic a few weeks ago to talk to Mikaela Shiffrin, Manuel Feller and Marco Schwarz about his retirement.

There's been plenty of news in the off-season and nothing bigger than the retirement of Marcel Hirscher'. Here's my story on the Austrian legend...

It's been a long old off-season but over seven months after the final meet of last season we are ready to go again!