Cluster: Swiss Identity

Coach behind ski team revival stepping down

This content was published on Dec 31, 2010 Martin Rufener, 51, said he would not renew his contract with Swiss Ski for next season, opting to work for a private aviation company instead. “With Martin Rufener we are losing a very competent boss,” Dierk Beisel, head of Swiss Ski’s competitive sport section said. “Martin took over the team during a very difficult time.…

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Swiss hockey hopes put on ice in Davos

This content was published on Dec 31, 2010 The Canadians dominated action on Thursday with a 4-0 win over 14-time winner HC Davos. Earlier in the day St Petersburg dispatched Servette Geneva 4-3 in overtime. Josh Holden and Pascal Pelletier connected in the first period while Mark Bell and Jean-Pierre Vigier scored in the second to seal the Canadian victory. The North Americans…

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Zurich Hells Angels are “not a crime syndicate”

This content was published on Dec 30, 2010 However, five members of the group will be accused of drug dealing, racketeering and attempted kidnapping as a result of the Federal Prosecutors Office investigation. The defendants reject the allegations. “Suspicions that the Hells Angels, or at least a core group of the club, act as a crime syndicate could not be corroborated,” the Federal…

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Highest, longest, first in 2010

This content was published on Dec 30, 2010 After 15 years of work, Switzerland made the last breakthrough in the longest rail tunnel in the world. The Gotthard base tunnel in southern Switzerland is 57 kilometres long. When it opens in 2017, the tunnel will shave one-and-a-half hours off the Zurich-Milan journey. Reporting on the October breakthrough ceremony, the Financial Times noted the…

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Ammann suffers setback in Four Hills event

This content was published on Dec 29, 2010 The four-time Olympic gold medal winner finished behind Austria’s Thomas Morgenstern, Matti Hautamäki of Finland and another Austrian, Manuel Fettner, in Oberstdorf on Wednesday. Ammann totalled 259.8 points – nearly 30 points behind Morgenstern. Experts say it might be difficult for the Swiss star to make up for the setback in the three remaining competitions.…

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Swiss downhill success at Bormio

This content was published on Dec 29, 2010 Michael Walchhofer of Austria finished Wednesday’s descent in the Italian resort in 1:59:66, his third victory of the season. The two were the only ones to come in in under two minutes. Another Swiss, Patrick Küng, was fourth, at 2:00:26. Zurbriggen, a slalom specialist, was the surprise downhill winner at Val Gardena earlier this month.…

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Fifa president looks to the future

This content was published on Dec 29, 2010 In an end of year message published on the Fifa website on Wednesday, Blatter says that in addition to the upcoming competitions, a key focus next year will be “football leadership”. Blatter is standing for a fourth four-year term of office on June 1, at Fifa’s congress in Zurich. In his message he says he…

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Societies racked by fear

This content was published on Dec 29, 2010 The writer Bernard Comment, who lives in Paris but whose roots are in French-speaking canton Jura, says we must not let ourselves be taken in: One snowy Christmas Eve in Porrentruy, the little town in the Jura where I was born, I came across a little girl, aged about five or six, who had let…

Prominent voices silenced in 2010

This content was published on Dec 29, 2010 They all had their own particular talents that were recognised both in and outside Switzerland. The uncrowned king of Swiss watchmaking, Nicolas G. Hayek, died in June of heart failure at his Swatch Group headquarters in Biel. Feted by many a university for his entrepreneurial skills and his tireless efforts for Swiss industry, Hayek, aged…

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Davos qualify for Spengler Cup semis

This content was published on Dec 29, 2010 The Davos team, the host and 14-times winner of the tournament, qualified after playing just two preliminary round matches. Sandro Rizzi got HC Davos on the board less than two minutes into the sold-out game. After the Canadians scored the equaliser, Davos’ Czech players Petr Taticek and Jaroslav Bednar scored to make the difference. Canada’s…

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