Winter sports season is upon us! Use this thread to discuss everything going on over the next few months.

Some interesting cases of skiers coming out of retirement with a new nationality this season - multiple world championship winner Marcel Hirscher is back 5 years after his retirement racing for The Netherlands instead of Austria, and Lucas Braathen has switched from Norway... to Brazil! Neither of those are countries particularly renowned for their skiing so it'll be some different flags on the board at least.

Albert Popov won a world cup race at Madonna di Campiglio today - the first Bulgarian to win a world cup race in 45 years!

Have the BBC got the Alpine Skiing World Championships at all?

I hope so but I've not heard either way yet! Looks like Ski Sunday started last week - they were mostly covering the freestyle skiing there.

Mia Brookes looks to be doing brilliantly in freestyle snowboarding! Maybe our next Olympic medal contender?

Skiing World Championships start in earnest tomorrow! Looks like it's all on the BBC so looking forward to following that.

Raphael Haaser winning the Giant Slalom was quite the surprise - from bib 22 as well! I did have him down as a dark horse after the first run though.

Great to see Dave Ryding in the Top 10 on the Men's Slalom and Billy Major in the Top 15! A real shame to see Laurie Taylor straddle right at the start of his second run though, the first run looked so promising.

Some pretty crazy levels of DNFs in the slalom overall though - 116 women took part in the first leg of the Slalom and only 45 finished. Surely something can be done to stop the hill being so unforgiving by the end?