Dec 4 : Marco Odermatt of Switzerland laid down an aggressive run to win the downhill at Beaver Creek on Thursday in the last Alpine skiing World Cup event in the United States before the Milano Cortina Olympics.

Odermatt, the four-time reigning World Cup overall champion and 2022 Olympic giant slalom gold medallist, attacked the formidable Birds of Prey course to finish in 1:29.84, 0.30 ahead of American Ryan Cochran-Siegle and 0.69 ahead of Norway's Adrian Smiseth Sejersted.

"I'm very happy to win for the first time here in the downhill. I felt really good while skiing," said Odermatt, who had finished runner-up twice in downhill at Beaver Creek.

"The piste was very good from my side. Yeah, it was a cool race for me," he said after notching up his 48th career World Cup win.

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