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“Perfect” Federer criticised by colleagues

This content was published on Jan 16, 2012 Davydenko, the former world number three, spoke a day after Rafael Nadal criticised his Swiss rival for sitting back while others speak out about issues including the overcrowded schedule and the distribution of prize money. Davydenko said 16-time Grand Slam champion Federer didn’t want “any problems” because “he’s a nice guy, he’s from Switzerland, he’s…

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Wengen World Cup slalom won by Kostelic

This content was published on Jan 15, 2012 The best placed Swiss skier in Sunday’s event was Markus Vogel who finished 17th. It is the third straight World Cup slalom victory for the 32-year-old Kostelic at the Swiss alpine resort. He also won Friday’s super combined event – a downhill and a slalom – in Wengen. Saturday’s classic Lauberhorn downhill race saw Switzerland’s…

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Swiss tourists among injured in Italy shipwreck

This content was published on Jan 15, 2012 It said the Swiss victims were admitted to hospital but had been able to leave again. Ministry officials on Sunday said they had no knowledge of further victims among the 69 Swiss passengers on board the Costa Concordia which hit a submerged rock off the island of Giglio on Friday. The Swiss tourists are being…

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Skier wins anniversary Swiss of the Year award

This content was published on Jan 15, 2012 Cuche won just under 22 per cent of the vote by people across the country on Saturday. The competition was launched in 2002 and the winners get their names engraved on a rock on an alpine meadow in central Switzerland. The 37-year-old was the runner-up in last year’s World Cup competition – making him the most…

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Cruise ship with Swiss passengers hits rocks

This content was published on Jan 14, 2012 At least three people are confirmed dead and about 40 others injured after the boat hit rocks on Friday evening 500 metres off the island of Giglio in the Mediterranean sea. Officials say most people reached the land by lifeboats while others swam to shore. However, not all passengers have yet been accounted for. It…

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Feuz races to Lauberhorn downhill victory

This content was published on Jan 14, 2012 Hannes Reichelt of Austria came second ahead of Italy’s Christof Innerhofer and Carlo Janka of Switzerland. Feuz’s main rivals, American Bode Miller and Swiss skier Didier Cuche finished fifth and fifteenth respectively in Saturday’s event. The 4.5km Lauberhorn race is the longest downhill event of the World Cup circuit. Feuz was runners-up in Friday’s super-combined event…

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C’est la vie!

This content was published on Jan 14, 2012 For the first time, the Swiss National Museum in Zurich is displaying its extensive press photo archive. The exhibition shows recent Swiss history from the point of view of press photographers and sheds light on how press photography developed in the second half of the 20th century into modern day photojournalism. Since the museum’s photo…

Swiss cautious on implant removal

This content was published on Jan 13, 2012 The Swiss medicine regulator, Swissmedic, is sticking to its line that faulty implants made by the now bankrupt French firm Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) should not be removed as a rule. It’s a decision derided by a new Geneva association set up in recent days. Victimes du 95c (named after a bra cup size) has…

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Feuz takes second in super-combined

This content was published on Jan 13, 2012 Feuz wowed the home crowd to finish just 0.2 seconds behind Croatia’s Ivica Kostelic. Bode Miller of the United States finished third. “I knew I had to attack and that it would be difficult to do better than Kostelic,” Feuz said after the race. Kostelic has won five of his last six outings in the…

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Santa Claus delivers twice

This content was published on Jan 13, 2012 The result is an improvement on the previous year’s figures and includes approximately 2,000 virtual gifts that donors could purchase online. The Red Cross said on Friday that people could buy virtual packages until the end of January. When the online campaign ends, the organisation will distribute the packages in Belarus, Moldova, Bosnia-Herzegovina and needy…

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