US hotshot Ted Ligety, French young gun Alexis Pinturault or Croatian veteran Ivica Kostelic.

The order might vary but in all likelihood they will grace the men's super-combined podium on Friday.

Over the past few seasons the three skiers have shown time and again they can handle the breakneck speeds of a downhill event and the trickiness of a slalom run, both of which are combined to make this event.