Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway won the overall title by two points over Benjamin Raich of Austria.

Svindal returned from a season-ending injury in December 2007, and also took the season title in super-G. Lindsey Vonn of the U.S. repeated as women's overall champion, taking the title by a substantial 384 points over Maria Riesch of Germany.

No pre-Olympic World Cup alpine events were run at Whistler Mountain, Canada, during the 2009 season.

The most recent men's World Cup events on the Dave Murray Downhill course were held in late February 1995.

The World Cup races in North America were switched to the early part of the season in the fall of 1995, and the men's speed events at Whistler were canceled three consecutive years (December 1996–98) due to weather issues, which prompted the switch to Lake Louise in Alberta in December 1999.