SOCHI UPDATE: Sunday Feb. 2

The FIS Alpine and Cross Country World Cups finished up their pre-Olympic run Sunday, as athletes headed to Sochi for the opening later this week of the Olympic Winter Games. The Rosa Khutor Extreme Park was active over the weekend with moguls skiers plus slopestyle skiing and snowboarding athletes getting in first training runs.

ALPINE
Men's Giant Slalom, St. Moritz

• Ted Ligety powered to a 1.51 second margin of victory to win the final pre-Olympic Audi FIS Alpine World Cup GS.
• Tim Jitloff was 17th.
• Weather claimed Saturday's planned downhill.
• The men open the Olympics next Sunday with downhill.
• TV: 1 p.m. EST, Universal Sports

Women's Slalom, Kranjska Gora

• First run leader Mikaela Shiffrin hit a hole on the second run, dropping to seventh
• Saturday's GS was rained and fogged out.
• The women open the Olympics Monday, Feb. 10 with super combined.
• TV: 11 a.m. EST, Universal Sports 

2015 World Championships, Vail/Beaver Creek

• Vail and Beaver Creek celebrated this weekend, with World Championships one year away

CROSS COUNTRY - Toblach, Italy

• Kikkan Randall was fifth in a freestyle sprint Sunday.
• Simi Hamilton led the men in 14th with Andy Newell 17th. Sophie Caldwell was 19th for women.
• Saturday, Liz Stephen was 11th in a 10k with Erik Bjornsen getting his first World Cup points finishing 18th in the 15k.
• Four U.S. women cracked the top 20 including Kikkan Randall 15th, Sadie Bjornsen 17th and Ida Sargent 20th.
• Olympic cross country opens next Saturday with the women's skiathlon.

FREESKIING, Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, Sochi

• Slopestyle skiers hit the Sochi course on Sunday for first training at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park.
• Opening event is women's slopestyle on Tuesday, Feb. 11.

FREESTYLE

• After a tremendous pre-Olympic camp in Steamboat Springs, moguls skiers hit the course at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park this weekend.
• Opening event is women's moguls, with qualifying Thursday and finals Saturday.
• Hannah Kearney is looking to defend her 2010 gold medal.
• Aerials athletes are continuing to train at Deer Valley Resort before heading to Sochi later this week.

NORDIC COMBINED

• Nordic combined skiers have been training in Park City but are headed to Sochi this week
• Opening event for nordic combined is Wednesday, Feb. 12 with the normal hill competition.

SKI JUMPING

• Ski jumpers will be en route to Sochi with training later this week.
• Men's qualifying on the normal hill is Saturday with finals Sunday.
• Debut of omen's jumping on Tuesday, Feb. 11.

SNOWBOARDING

• Snowboarders his the slopestyle training course this weekend for their first training.
• The Olympic debut of slopestyle begins Thursday with men's qualifying; medal round set for Saturday.

UPCOMING OLYMPIC SCHEDULE (times EST)
Thursday, Feb. 6
1:00 am - Men's slopestyle snowboarding qualification
5:00 am - Women's slopestyle qualification
9:00 am - Women's moguls qualification