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Gisin takes second downhill victory

This content was published on Jan 24, 2009 Gisin finished the course at the Tofane piste in the Italian Alps on Saturday morning with a time of 1:16.98 while Switzerland’s Nadia Styger tied for seventh place, 0.43 seconds behind her teammate. Sweden’s Anja Pärson, who shared the top spot on the podium with Gisin last week in Zauchensee, Austria, finished third, 0.17 seconds…

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Swiss-Canadian director keeps her focus

This content was published on Jan 24, 2009 The director is currently being celebrated in a retrospective at the Solothurn film festival, which runs until Sunday. She tells swissinfo about the challenges of commercial competition and says coproductions are key to arthouse cinema’s survival. swissinfo: Filmmaking in Quebec is similar to that in Switzerland – it is mostly subsidised by a country made…

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Ski race injuries prompt serious questions

This content was published on Jan 23, 2009 In the past 15 months, four downhill skiers have been badly hurt, the latest being Daniel Albrecht. The Swiss skier crashed in Kitzbühel on Thursday and remains in an induced coma with brain and lung injuries. Hans Spring, head doctor for the Swiss men’s ski team, says ski racing has become much safer than it…

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Hoffmann wins podium place in Super-G

This content was published on Jan 23, 2009 He was 0.39 seconds behind the winner, Klaus Kröll of Austria who finished the course on Friday in Kitzbühel in 1 minute, 12.78 seconds. Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway came second. The last time Hoffmann had a top-three finish was at the 2005 Olympic Games in Italy, where he took third in the Super-G. “I…

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Sharia proposal rebuffed by anti-racism experts

This content was published on Jan 23, 2009 The president of the Federal Anti-Racism Commission, Georg Kreis, said there was no support for the system to be established. He told the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper that although the author of the idea, Christian Giordano, had published a guest article on the subject in the commission’s official publication, his views were not shared by the members.…

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Federer steams ahead in Australian Open

This content was published on Jan 23, 2009 Federer won by 6-3, 6-2, 7-6 (5) in the match on Friday at the Rod Laver Arena. The match was dominated by Federer who went on to take the lead in a third-set tiebreak after Safin was called for a foot fault. Safin confirmed on Friday that the tournament was his last Australian Open, adding…

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No man is an island – and nor is Switzerland

This content was published on Jan 23, 2009 “Once they were refugees” is the title of a new book of interviews with nine Swiss residents from nine different countries, representative of many thousands who arrived between the 1950s and 1990s and for whom Switzerland is now home. What they have in common is that they were all accepted as part of the quota…

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Cabinet slammed in nuclear secrets case

This content was published on Jan 22, 2009 A control committee said that the reasons the government gave for doing so were not convincing and that briefings given to members of parliament were not sufficient. Destroying the documents had also compromised an investigation. Claude Janiak, head of the delegation, said on Thursday that the government was wrong to do so but it had…

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Bern filmmaker up for an Oscar

This content was published on Jan 22, 2009 Reto Caffi will be mingling with the stars in Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre on February 22, when he will find out whether his movie, “Auf der Strecke” (On the Line), is worthy of an Oscar for Best Short Film (Live Action). Caffi, 37, produced the 30-minute film while studying at art school in Cologne, Germany. Filmed…

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Albrecht placed in artificial coma

This content was published on Jan 22, 2009 Albrecht lost control in the Austrian resort on Thursday and flew through the air for about 50 metres at almost 140 km/h. He landed badly on his back and came to a stop near the finish line. He received medical attention for several minutes before being airlifted by helicopter to a local hospital. It was…

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