Punctual after three days of bad weather, on the first day of competition with two super-Gs on Cortina, the sun finally arrived that made the splendid Dolomites shine but certainly not the blue skiing.
The best among the Italians was in fact Dominik Paris - outgoing holder of the world title - but only 5 / o in 1.19.96.
Definitely worse in the super-G declined for women, with Federica Brignone best blue but only tenth and Marta Bassino eleventh.
It was the worst result of the season for the blue jet girls in this discipline.
The two races, however, went, at least for the conquest of the world title, as they should have gone, that is with the success of the announced winners.
In fact, among women triumphs the Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami, already queen of these world championships: it is the first world title of the Ticino footballer wife of the Genoa player Valon Behrami, one who in her career has won as many as 30 will and has also consumed a world cup in 2016.
"At the start I was excited. I repeated to myself that it was a race like any other and that with 30 career successes I had nothing to prove, the Swiss champion happily said.
Silver to his compatriot Corinne Suter and bronze to American Mikaela Shiffrin.
The American, who was the holder of the title, finished very long on a diagonal in this her first fast race of the season, otherwise she would have fought for the gold.
The blue, with Bassino finished immediately behind Brignone, got lost on a snow not treated with water and quite slow.
In short, they failed to "find speed", as they said.
Clear therefore the disappointment but also clear the commitment to focus on their next races, the giant above all.
Spectacular was the men's super-G on the new Vertigo track with its terrible jump that gives it its name.
The blue technician and former cup athlete Alberto Ghidoni, who arranged the doors before and after the jump, arranged the race in such a way that it was also necessary to know how to brake.
And also in this super-G the best won, namely the Austrian Vincent Kriechmayr, ruler of the season, not surprisingly, and gold as a true master.
Vincent got out after the first three at the start had gone inexorably out and the coaches' walkie-talkies started giving directions to the athletes still at the start.
All to find the best way to deal with that trap step.
The thing, of course, was complicated by the fact that Vertigo was unknown to almost everyone because it never entered the cup circuit again.
In the end, everyone got to the bottom with mistakes, none fully satisfied with the skiing.
Except for the German Romed Baumann - an Austrian who runs for Germany - who with bib 20 had the right ability to slow down at the right moment.
He thus closed 2 / o, making even Kriechmayr tremble.
Bronze to the French Alexis Pinturault who exploited his technical ability as a great gigantist.
The blue Paris was third for a long time, despite the mistakes.
"I believed in the podium, even though I knew there was room for others and Baumann found the right interpretation - said Domme, who was then overtaken in fourth position by the unknown Canadian Brodie Seger with bib 28 -. The fifth final place gives me 'Anyway, confidence. In this period I am going much better downhill. And I am aiming for that race for which we have two tests, tomorrow and the day after.
All the other Azzurri, including Christof Innerhofer, complained about their even more serious mistakes.
Tomorrow there will be the first timed test.
That of the women on the Olympia delle Tofane will also be the only one due to cancellations in recent days due to bad weather.
Race Saturday.
The men - who have the race on Sunday - will be able to do a second test on Saturday.
And for Italy sprint the hunt for the podium starts.
