More than six out of ten people in Switzerland do not exercise enough and are now being encouraged by the government to move themselves.
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A sports week in May is to put the focus on exercise for people to be ready for the following month’s Euro 2008 football championship being co-hosted by Switzerland and Austria.
At a news conference in Bern on Monday, the defence ministry – which is also responsible for sport – said 64 per cent of people in the country are out of shape.
A project, called “Switzerland moves” will involve the residents of 200 communes taking part in sport activities, while 200 schools in Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein will hold football tournaments.
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In the final chance to attend the matches, a total of 278,000 requests for 765,000 tickets – fans can buy a maximum of four tickets per game – were made during the weeklong online draw, which ended at noon on Saturday. Unfortunately there are only 5,600 tickets available for each of the three matches in…
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Wednesday’s defeat in London – the Swiss side’s sixth in 11 games as part of preparations for Euro 2008 – comes 121 days before the tournament kicks off in Basel. England, currently 12th in Fifa’s world rankings, were strong favourites over 44th-ranked Switzerland and always looked in control of the match, despite the final scoreline.…
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