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Zurbriggen and Schmid haul in Olympic hardware

This content was published on Feb 21, 2010 With one week of the Games to go, the wins boost Switzerland’s medal count to seven, leaving the team within striking distance of the ten to 12 medals it hoped to bring home. This year marked the debut of the ski cross event as an Olympic sport and Schmid’s victory at Cypress Mountain solidifies a…

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Federer withdraws from Dubai with lung infection

This content was published on Feb 21, 2010 Organisers said on Sunday that the Swiss star picked up the infection last week and will miss the $2 million event (SFr2.15 million), which starts on Monday. This is the second straight year that Federer has missed the tournament. Circuit official Stephen Duckett said Federer had seen a doctor and that he “was advised not…

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No line between fraud and evasion for Swiss

This content was published on Feb 21, 2010 Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf told the Zurich-based NZZ am Sonntag newspaper that as long as the Swiss upheld the distinction for foreign clients, abolishing it at home could never be discussed. That is no longer the case, she said. “Now that the distinction has been lifted to the outside world, the time has come to talk about…

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Banks to be lampooned at “cabaret” carnival

This content was published on Feb 21, 2010 The head of the organising committee, Felix Rudolf von Rohr, tells swissinfo.ch that it is the lengths Basel goes to to lampoon events of the past year that set its three-day festival apart from other carnivals. Just when carnival comes to an end in most other cities, Basel’s is just beginning. And whereas carnival is…

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Ski jumper Ammann flies into Olympic history

This content was published on Feb 20, 2010 Ammann won the large hill competition on Saturday ahead of Poland’s Adam Malysz who took silver. Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer placed third — the exact same finish as in the normal hill jump a week earlier. The Swiss threw his arms into the air and shook his head as if in disbelief. He lingered in the…

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Swiss Olympic bob team suffers another crash

This content was published on Feb 20, 2010 Driver Daniel Schmid, 34, withdrew on Friday from both the two- and four-man races. The two-man bobsled is scheduled to take place on Saturday. Schmid said in a statement he pulled out “for safety reasons”. Schmid’s brakeman, 28-year-old Jürg Egger, was flown to hospital in Vancouver earlier in the week after the two capsized their…

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Swiss meadow to flower in Shanghai

This content was published on Feb 20, 2010 But before this can happen, the Swiss team have some hurdles to overcome, not least of which is liberating some all-important chairlifts from customs. They have ten weeks left to create Swiss paradise. Under the motto “interaction between city and countryside”, the Swiss Pavilion aims to draw visitors in with familiar Swiss stereotypes – mountains,…

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Questions raised over foreign student influx

This content was published on Feb 19, 2010 While many agree that overseas students help boost diversity and quality, a debate is raging over whether quotas should be introduced or fees raised to stem costs. According to the Federal Statistics Office, from 1997-2008 the numbers of foreigners starting first degrees or bachelors increased by around eight per cent per year. In 2008, 19…

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No success for Swiss men in super-G

This content was published on Feb 19, 2010 The team, which had placed its hopes on the likes of Carlo Janka, Didier Cuche and downhill champion Didier Défago, finished well out of the medals. Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway finished with a time of one minute, 30.34 seconds. Bode Miller of the United States finished 0.28 seconds behind, followed by countryman Andrew Weibrecht,…

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Swiss driver Hefti to miss two-man bob

This content was published on Feb 19, 2010 Hefti, the world’s top two-man driver, needed to have at least two training runs at the Whistler Sliding Center track in order to participate in Sunday’s race. Hefti suffered bruises to his body and a concussion after his crash. He missed Thursday’s training and said he would not train on Friday. It is not certain…

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