Sochi is ready for the 2014 Olympics, French skier Thomas Mermillod Blondin said Sunday after finishing third in the final super-combined World Cup stage of the season.
Blondin, 32, said he hoped to be part of the France team competing at Rosa Khutor, which passed its first serious test as a venue for international competition this weekend.
"I think you are ready for the Olympic Games," Blondin said after Sunday's run. "But If I'm here in two years it's a good thing!"
Croatia's Ivica Kostelic won the race to take the 2012 World Cup globe and defend his title in the discipline.
Slalom master Kostelic finished in 2 minutes, 50.21 seconds to beat Saturday's downhill victor Beat Fuez (2:51.37) by more than a seond. Kostelic made up 1.5 seconds overnight.
Kostelic, 32, injured his knee in Sunday's run, which marked his sixth World Cup super-combined win this season, and was whisked away to hospital for a scan.
Several contenders came to grief on the icy slopes, including American Bode Miller, who retired after missing an early gate.
Most competitors have lauded the course and the event's general organization. Sochi officials have expressed their wish to make the city a fixture on the World Cup calendar.
For Vancouver gold medalist Miller, who criticized the downhill course earlier this week for its twists and turns at the top, it was a second disappointment after being edged into fourth at the death Saturday by Canada's Benjamin Thomsen and Frenchman Adrien Theaux.
