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With the Winter Olympics in northern Italy now just two months away, alpine skiing's World Cup tour hits another gear this week as Colorado's Beaver Creek hosts the first downhill race of the season along with a speedy super-G. Meanwhile, the lone Canadian stop on the circuit is taking place at Quebec's Mont Tremblant, which will stage a pair of women's giant slaloms.

Since Canada's best hopes for an Olympic alpine medal are on the men's side, let's start there.

The downhill and super-G are known as the "speed" disciplines. They're the fastest, the most dangerous and, for the average fan, the most exciting. Though the World Cup s

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