BEAVER CREEK, Colo. (AP) — Marco Odermatt of Switzerland cruised to a World Cup giant slalom win Sunday for his second victory on the Birds of Prey course in a four-day span.
After winning Thursday's downhill, Odermatt found more speed through the tricky GS setup and finished in a combined time of 2 minutes, 20.59 seconds. He held off Alex Vinatzer of Italy by 0.23 seconds. Norwegian skier Henrik Kristoffersen finished third.
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Switzerland's Marco Odermatt competes during a World Cup men's giant slalom skiing race, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Switzerland's Marco Odermatt reacts at the finish line during a World Cup men's giant slalom skiing race, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen shakes hands with Italy's Alex Vinatzer at the finish line during a World Cup men's giant slalom skiing race, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Switzerland's Marco Odermatt reacts at the finish line during a World Cup men's giant slalom skiing race, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Brazil's Lucas Pinheiro Braathen competes during a World Cup men's giant slalom skiing race, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen competes during a World Cup men's giant slalom skiing race, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Switzerland's Marco Odermatt competes during a World Cup men's giant slalom skiing race, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Odermatt got back on track in the GS after falling in the first run at Copper Mountain, Colorado, on Nov. 28. It ended a streak of eight straight World Cup podium finishes in the GS.
The snow at Beaver Creek always seems to bring out the best in Odermatt. He's finished in the top three on nine occasions, including five wins, at this hill. His first World Cup victory was in a super-G at Beaver Creek on Dec. 6, 2019.
For all the success he's had at the venue, though, Odermatt has struggled in the giant slalom at Birds of Prey. His best finish was 27th in the discipline at Beaver Creek — until Sunday.
That may be why he let out a scream after he saw his winning time.
“It’s very special,” said Odermatt, who now has 28 World Cup wins in GS. “The giant slalom today was somehow missing on my portfolio. Yeah, I'm super happy."
So, which win means more this weekend — the downhill or the GS?
“Those are always tough questions,” Odermatt said. “I think I still have to go with the downhill because downhill is just something different.”
It was Vinatzer's fourth career World Cup podium and first in the GS.
American racer River Radamus was 18th after the first run but moved up to sixth place with a strong final performance. His teammates, Ryder Sarchett (25th) and George Steffey (27th), also finished in the top 30.
The men's circuit moves to Val d’Isere, France, next weekend for a giant slalom and slalom.
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Switzerland's Marco Odermatt competes during a World Cup men's giant slalom skiing race, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Switzerland's Marco Odermatt reacts at the finish line during a World Cup men's giant slalom skiing race, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen shakes hands with Italy's Alex Vinatzer at the finish line during a World Cup men's giant slalom skiing race, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Switzerland's Marco Odermatt reacts at the finish line during a World Cup men's giant slalom skiing race, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Brazil's Lucas Pinheiro Braathen competes during a World Cup men's giant slalom skiing race, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen competes during a World Cup men's giant slalom skiing race, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Switzerland's Marco Odermatt competes during a World Cup men's giant slalom skiing race, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “hasn’t read” a U.S-authored peace proposal aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
Trump was critical of Zelenskyy after U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators completed three days of talks on Saturday aimed at trying to narrow differences on the U.S. administration’s proposal. But in an exchange with reporters on Sunday night, Trump suggested that the Ukrainian leader is holding up the talks from moving forward.
“I’m a little bit disappointed that President Zelenskyy hasn’t yet read the proposal, that was as of a few hours ago. His people love it. But he hasn’t — Russia’s fine with it,” Trump told reporters on the red carpet at the Kennedy Center Honors. “Russia is, I believe, fine with it, but I’m not sure that Zelenskyy’s fine with it. His people love it, but he hasn’t read it.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin also hasn’t publicly expressed approval for the White House plan. In fact, Putin last week had said that aspects of Trump’s proposal were unworkable, even though the original draft heavily favored Moscow.
Trump has had a hot-and-cold relationship with Zelenskyy since riding into a second White House term insisting that the war was a waste of U.S. taxpayer money. Trump has also repeatedly urged the Ukrainians to cede land to Russia to bring an end to a now nearly four-year conflict he says has cost far too many lives.
Zelenskyy said Saturday he had a “substantive phone call” with the American officials engaged in the talks with a Ukrainian delegation in Florida. He said he had been given an update over the phone by U.S. and Ukrainian officials at the talks.
“Ukraine is determined to keep working in good faith with the American side to genuinely achieve peace,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media.
Trump’s criticism of Zelenskyy came as Russia on Sunday welcomed the Trump administration’s new national security strategy in comments by the Kremlin spokesman published by Russia’s Tass news agency.
Dmitry Peskov said the updated strategic document, which spells out the administration’s core foreign policy interests, was largely in line with Moscow’s vision.
“There are statements there against confrontation and in favor of dialogue and building good relations,” he said, adding that Russia hopes this would lead to “further constructive cooperation with Washington on the Ukrainian settlement.”
The document released Friday by the White House said the U.S. wants to improve its relationship with Russia after years of Moscow being treated as a global pariah and that ending the war is a core U.S. interest to “reestablish strategic stability with Russia.”
Speaking on Saturday at the Reagan National Defense Forum, Trump’s outgoing Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellogg, said efforts to end the war were in “the last 10 meters.”
He said a deal depended on the two outstanding issues of “terrain, primarily the Donbas,” and the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
Russia controls most of Donbas, its name for the Donetsk and neighboring Luhansk regions, which, along with two southern regions, it illegally annexed three years ago. The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is in an area that has been under Russian control since early in Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and is not in service. It needs reliable power to cool its six shutdown reactors and spent fuel, to avoid any catastrophic nuclear incidents.
Kellogg, who is due to leave his post in January, was not present at the talks in Florida.
Separately, officials said the leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Germany would participate in a meeting with Zelenskyy in London on Monday.
As the three days of talks wrapped up, Russian missile, drone and shelling attacks overnight and Sunday killed at least four people in Ukraine.
A man was killed in a drone attack on Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region Saturday night, local officials said, while a combined missile and drone attack on infrastructure in the central city of Kremenchuk caused power and water outages. Kremenchuk is home to one of Ukraine’s biggest oil refineries and is an industrial hub.
Kyiv and its Western allies say Russia is trying to cripple the Ukrainian power grid and deny civilians access to heat, light and running water for a fourth consecutive winter, in what Ukrainian officials call “weaponizing” the cold.
Three people were killed and 10 others wounded Sunday in shelling by Russian troops in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, according to the regional prosecutor’s office.
This story was first published on Dec. 7, 2025. It was updated on Dec. 8, 2025 to correct that Trump said Zelenskyy hadn’t read the latest proposal, rather than that he wasn’t ready to accept it.
AP writers Darlene Superville and Aamer Madhani in Washington contributed reporting.
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President Donald Trump talks to the media while walking the red carpet before the 48th Kennedy Center Honors, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
FILE- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov attends a Kyrgyzstan-Russia talk at the Administrative complex Yntymak-Manas Ordo, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Nov. 26, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
In this photo provided by Ukraine's 65th Mechanized Brigade press service, a soldier tests land drones in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, (Andriy Andriyenko/Ukraine's 65th Mechanized Brigade via AP)
In this photo, provided by Ukraine's 65th Mechanized Brigade press service, a soldier tests land drones in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, (Andriy Andriyenko/Ukraine's 65th Mechanized Brigade via AP)
