The World Cup of the 2022/23 Alpine Ski season is in full swing. On January 28th the men will continue in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the women in Spindlermühle. Here you can find out when and where you can watch the races in live stream and on free TV.
The Alpine World Ski Championships in Courchevel and Meribel begin on February 6, 2023. We’ll tell you where you can see the winter sports highlights.
The Alpine Ski World Cup can be easily followed on the public broadcasters ARD and ZDF. Another transmission is offered on the streaming service Joyn.
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Winter sports fans who don’t like the public service selection or find it too small can switch to Eurosport. According to its own statements, the niche broadcaster has more than 1,100 hours of programming on various platforms. The broadcaster, which belongs to Warner Bros. Discovery, also relies on paid offers.
Men’s appointments:
Dates of the women:
ARD and ZDF have almost 400 hours of live reporting in their programs. The two public TV channels alternate on the weekends, ARD will start this year and, after the first biathlon races during the week, will show the first continuous program this Saturday for almost six hours. The special interest channel Eurosport has even more winter sports in its program.
The first and the second usually broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays from early morning to late afternoon. This Saturday, the ARD starts at 8.55 a.m. and offers, among other things, biathlon, cross-country skiing, tobogganing and bobsleigh. Until 3.15 p.m. there is winter sports in the first, it looks almost identical on Sunday. The round of 16 of the World Cup kicks off at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. So if you want, you can watch sports for more than twelve hours.
The second big winter sports weekend runs on ZDF. On Saturday in one week (December 10th) the second will show world cups on snow and ice from 10:10 a.m. to 3:20 p.m., at 4:00 p.m. a quarterfinal of the Qatar World Cup will be kicked off. There will be no games in Qatar on Sunday (December 11) and there will be no competition in winter sports.
There are some changes due to the football World Cup in winter. Several winter sports have been relocated to avoid football. The first ski jumping started earlier than usual, the discipline “largely elegantly avoided the World Cup,” as ARD program director Thomas Wehrle put it.
Some associations have postponed competitions to the new year. The broadcasters have “already coordinated with the various associations over the long term in order to keep overlaps to a minimum,” explained ARD sports coordinator Axel Balkausky. The public broadcasters also have more World Cups than otherwise only on the Internet.
Winter sports fans who don’t like the public service selection or find it too small can switch to Eurosport. According to its own statements, the niche broadcaster has more than 1,100 hours of programming on various platforms. For example, on Saturday and Sunday in the late afternoon there will be alpine skiing in Beaver Creek and Lake Louise at Eurosport. The broadcaster, which belongs to Warner Bros. Discovery, also relies on paid offers.
The ARD has a new expert duo in biathlon. Arnd Peiffer and Erik Lesser work for the first, Magdalena Neuner and Kati Wilhelm are no longer in action. The unchanged ZDF team includes Toni Innauer (ski jumping), Marco Büchel (alpine skiing), Sven Fischer and Laura Dahlmeier (biathlon).
Eurosport has the most experts on the microphone, including Martin Schmitt, Werner Schuster (ski jumping), Michael Rösch (biathlon), Vicky Rebensburg (alpine skiing), Jochen Behle (cross-country skiing) and Hans-Peter Pohl (Nordic combined).
The three-time Alpine Olympic champion Maria Höfl-Riesch does not believe in the success of a possible German Olympic bid. “Given the current mood in the population, I see a new attempt as very, very difficult. Personally, I think it’s great, but I don’t think the idea can be enforced,” said the 38-year-old in an interview with the editorial network Germany.
The Upper Bavarian has always been a supporter of major events in her own country. “I was able to experience a Ski World Championships in my home town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and I supported Munich and Garmisch-Partenkirchen’s Olympic bid for 2018. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen,” said Höfl-Riesch in retrospect.
The all-rounder herself celebrated her greatest successes at the Olympics. Two gold medals in the slalom and the combined 2010 in Canada as well as the title in the combination and silver in the Super-G 2014 in Sochi make Höfl-Riesch one of the most successful racers in German alpine history.
The last Olympic Games in Germany were held in Munich in 1972. The upcoming Summer Games have been awarded to Paris for 2024, Los Angeles for 2028 and Brisbane in Australia for 2032. The next winter hosts in 2026 are Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.
