Cluster: Swiss Identity

Street Parade revellers head home after weekend of fun

This content was published on Aug 12, 2000 Few incidents were reported as the huge crowds – dressed in bizarre costumes or wearing very little at all – partied along the shores of Lake Zurich. Temperatures of around 30 degrees attracted many people to the Street Parade. Officials said the biggest problem appeared to have been people feeling the effects of the heat.…

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Vavrinec gets tennis wild card for Sydney

This content was published on Aug 12, 2000 Vavrinec, from canton Thurgau, has received an invitation from the International Tennis Federation as a “wild card” competitor in next month’s games. She still has to be formally selected by the Swiss Tennis Association before her ticket to Sydney is booked. Vavrinec will become the fifth member of the Swiss squad, joining Switzerland’s leading player,…

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More Swiss athletes bound for Sydney

This content was published on Aug 11, 2000 Marcel Schelbert ran the 400 metres hurdles in 49’49” – almost a second faster than his best performance so far this season. Schelbert, who has been plagued by injury, only had to meet the Olympic limit of 49’60” once because of his standing in the world rankings. His compatriot, Raphael Monachon, ran a time of…

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Schelbert qualifies for Sydney

This content was published on Aug 11, 2000 It was almost a second faster than his best performance so far this season. Schelbert only had to meet the Olympic limit of 49’60” once because of his standing in the world rankings. In other results, America’s Marion Jones won the women’s 100 metres in a time of 10’95”. Jones’s compatriot, Inger Miller, finished second…

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Ticino prosecutor condemns media handling of Ticinogate

This content was published on Aug 11, 2000 Dismissing media reports of the last few days as destabilising, malicious and pure fantasy, Marcellini said he had himself been the victim of libel. He also suggested changes to Swiss law to help the fight against organised smuggling. Marcellini, who had himself come briefly under suspicion in the scandal involving the Italian businessman, Gerardo Cuomo,…

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Charity rejects cover-up claim in paedophile case

This content was published on Aug 11, 2000 A spokeswoman for the organisation in Lausanne, Hélène Sulzer, said there was no truth in reports in two leading Swiss newspapers, which alleged that Terres des Hommes had failed to press charges against one of its officials for sexually abusing children in India. The reports appeared in the Friday editions of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung…

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Horses on show in Saignelégier

This content was published on Aug 11, 2000 Some 400 horses will be judged by a panel of experts in various categories of the competition, and there will also be the traditional cross-country racing. But for many, the highlight is the traditional grand parade through the streets of Saignelégier, which as well as the horses includes folklore groups, bands, cows, sheep, goats and…

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World’s top athletes go through their paces in Zurich

This content was published on Aug 11, 2000 Depending on weather conditions, the meeting at the Letzigrund stadium – one of the Golden League events of the year – usually produces a clutch of world, European and personal best times. America’s Maurice Greene, the world record holder over 100 metres, leads the international line-up. Greene will be out to prove he is still…

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Chaos controlled in Luginbühl’s sculpture garden

This content was published on Aug 11, 2000 Fifty-nine pieces are exhibited in the Mötschwil sculpture park near Bern. Almost as intriguing as these sculptures are the enormous quantities of scrap metal on display – including 150 ploughs, an entire airplane wing, and piles of rusty chain. These are the bones of future sculptures. Hans Christoph von Tavel, former director of Bern’s fine…

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Locarno pioneers cinema technology of the future

This content was published on Aug 11, 2000 The PalaVideo Sony cinema used a small congress centre with 300 seats in Muralto, near Locarno’s Piazza Grande, to demonstrate how video images can be projected on to the big screen without losing the quality of the pictures. At present films shot on video must be transferred to photographic film in the final stage of…

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