Cluster: Swiss Identity

Novy swims to Championship victory in familiar waters

This content was published on Aug 4, 2000 Novy edged Gerry Strasser for the gold medal with a time of 1’43″89. After the race he admitted he had felt the pressure of having to do his best before his Vevey Natation club-members, but said he was most satisfied with his performance. “I feel that in a way this represents the culmination of my…

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Controversial French film makes waves in Locarno

This content was published on Aug 4, 2000 Written by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Tri, the liberal Parisian press had been outraged at the film’s X rating earlier this summer. Critics had denounced the move as censorship, and likening the film to a feminist manifesto, or a French version of the American road movie, “Thelma and Louise”. But that would be giving…

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Ancient Roman fresco turns up in Zurich

This content was published on Aug 4, 2000 The work – depicting a peacock – disappeared from the Italian town of Pompeii in 1957. Dating from 79 AD, it had been in the possession of a Zurich collector until earlier this year. According to Italian police, the collector had unwittingly bought the piece from a Swiss antiques dealer, but had handed it over…

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Johnson pulls out of Zurich meeting

This content was published on Aug 4, 2000 Johnson’s spokeswoman said he would definitely not take part in the Weltklasse event next Friday. “Rather than shuffle him back and forth to Europe, we believe it would be best if he stayed at home and trained.” Johnson, who pulled out of the 200 metres in Sacramento, California, on July 23, was due to compete…

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Locarno festival film is a critical flop

This content was published on Aug 4, 2000 X-men is based on the comic strip of the same name, which began in 1962 and quickly acquired cult status with its combination of action-loaded science fiction plots with some of humankind’s oldest moral questions. The comic series’, and the film’s, main characters are mutants. All over a world which otherwise looks very much like…

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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…

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