Cluster: Swiss Identity

Police flex muscles for Law Enforcement Games

This content was published on Aug 4, 2000 Officers from 17 countries, including Switzerland, will take part in events as varied as horseshoe throwing, darts, bullseye pistol and more traditional sports such as basketball, cycling and judo. They will also be battling for the title of Toughest Cop Alive, in which participants run, swim, climb and lift weights. About 6,000 people are due…

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Hingis crashes to unseeded opponent

This content was published on Aug 4, 2000 Top seed and defending champion Hingis was beaten 6-3, 6-3 by the unseeded American, Amy Frazier. Frazier was in complete control of the 64-minute match, hitting numerous winners from the baseline.It was her first victory over Hingis. The match was only the second played by Hingis in the past month. She had taken a three-week…

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Rigamonti pips rival Strasser to the post

This content was published on Aug 3, 2000 All nine members of the Swiss swimming squad for the games will be at the 50-metre pool in Vevey-Corseaux for the event, which runs from Thursday until Sunday. Fans are paying particular attention to the performances of Flavia Rigamonti, Chantal Strasser and Remo Lütolf – seen as three of Switzerland’s best hopes for Olympic glory.…

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Fifa agrees to rotate World Cup

This content was published on Aug 3, 2000 The decision came on Thursday at a meeting of the executive committee of football’s world governing board, Fifa, in Zurich. The form in which the prestigious and highly lucrative World Cup finals are rotated still has to be worked out by a Fifa committee, officials said. The review of selection procedures follows the controversy that…

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Hingis takes on Frazier

This content was published on Aug 3, 2000 In her first game at the tournament on Tuesday, Hingis struggled to dispose of Dominique Roost of Belgium. Hingis won the first set convincingly, 6-2, but Roost pulled ahead to 6-5 in the second before losing her nerve and her serve. Hingis won the second set in a tie-break. It was her first game in…

Berne to reveal cultural heritage to the world

This content was published on Aug 3, 2000 It’s midday in Berne, and a tour guide is showing a group of visitors the medieval clock tower. A tour bus roars past with another batch of tourists, while yet more are taking a horse-drawn carriage ride through the town. Elsewhere, a man is in the process of turning the old town into a virtual…

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Young men found to be biggest traffic offenders

This content was published on Aug 3, 2000 The study suggests that safety on Switzerland’s roads is being threatened by a relatively small number of repeat offenders. There is also evidence that tougher punishments are no deterrent to bad drivers. The Federal Statistics Office found that a quarter of people caught breaking the rules of the road re-offend, usually within two years of…

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Switzerland celebrates a century of music-making

This content was published on Aug 3, 2000 Swiss composers and foreign composers who have worked in Switzerland are featured in the exhibition, entitled “Between Denges and Denzy”. These are the first words – referring to two villages in Canton Vaud – of “A Soldier’s Tale”, composed in 1918 in Lausanne by Igor Stravinsky and based on a text by the Swiss writer,…

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Former terrorism suspects sue Swiss police

This content was published on Aug 3, 2000 The two Swiss men are claiming a total of SFr240,000 ($142,000) in damages and loss of earnings, Swiss radio reported on Thursday. They were arrested along with two women in 1994 in Geneva and Locarno on suspicion of helping the Venezuelan terrorist, Carlos, in a number of murders and attempted murders. They were held for…

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Chicago kids bear up despite rain

This content was published on Aug 3, 2000 It had also been raining in Chicago when they left, said Treshaunda, 13, but the weather didn’t put a damper on her enthusiasm for Switzerland. Treshaunda and 11 other children are the winners of a competition held in Chicago during the Swiss Week last September. They correctly answered questions about Switzerland and took part in…

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