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America’s Cup team celebrate first victory

This content was published on May 14, 2001 With Germany’s triple Olympic gold medallist Jochen Schümann at the helm, Alinghi’s four-man crew won the first regatta of the Alinghi Swiss Tour on Monday. The five-regatta competition was created to drum up support for the team and to raise the profile of sailing in Switzerland. The races are being held on the lakes of…

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Football teams prepare for final chase

This content was published on May 14, 2001 With just three rounds remaining, the two sides are level on points at the top of the Swiss league table. If neither team can pull clear in the next two matches the stage will be set for a tense finale on May 26, when St Gallen welcome Grasshoppers to the Espenmoos stadium. Following Sunday’s 1-1…

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Supporters seek rehabilitation of Swiss who tried to kill Hitler

This content was published on May 14, 2001 The Maurice Bavaud Committee issued a call for a formal Swiss apology to mark the 60th anniversary of the execution on Monday. Bavaud was guillotined in prison in Berlin on May 14 1941. The committee accuses the then Swiss authorities of abandoning the young theology student to his fate and says the Swiss police collaborated…

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Maximilian Schell takes his last bow

This content was published on May 14, 2001 Schell, who is 70, made the announcement in New York after performing on Broadway in a stage version of “Judgment at Nuremberg”. He was playing one of the defendants in the Nazi war crimes trials which followed the Second World War. In the 1961 film on which the play is based he was a defence…

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Top politician to quit boards of overseas companies

This content was published on May 14, 2001 Hess, regarded as Switzerland’s most senior politician, made the comments in an interview with the Swiss newspaper, “dimanche.ch”. “I now admit I should have renounced my links with these companies before being elected to the office of speaker,” he told the paper, “and my failure to do so was an error.” But Hess rejected calls…

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ICRC unveils state of the art training centre

This content was published on May 14, 2001 The recent deaths of six ICRC workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo and a pilot in Sudan have highlighted the growing risks that humanitarian workers face, and the need for them to be prepared for any eventuality. The Ecogia centre is in a protected 18th century building near Versoix, deep in the Geneva countryside.…

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Exhibition illustrates the work of underrated artists

This content was published on May 14, 2001 Illustrators of children’s books are frequently underrated as artists, and one of the exhibition’s aims is to rectify a misconception shared by many Swiss adults – including schoolteachers. “Illustrators frequently get asked whether they are working for children or whether they are artists,” says the exhibition organiser, Inge Sauer. “In Switzerland and Germany,” she added,…

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Sauber result suspended pending investigation

This content was published on May 13, 2001 The BAR team accuses Sauber-Petronas’s pilot, the Finn Kimi Raikkonen, of overtaking illegally under a yellow flag warning. Stewards at the ring interrogated Raikkonen, and viewed video evidence provided by the BAR team. They concluded that because the marshals had not reported anything, no incident had taken place. However, the International Automobile Federation (FIA) said…

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Lugano hold Basel to 1-1 draw

This content was published on May 13, 2001 Lugano looked like they might steal the advantage over their league rivals after a goal from Gimenez in the ninth minute, but Basel’s Hakan Yakin responded with an equaliser just before half time. If there was little to separate the two teams on the pitch, they remain equally close together in the league standings. Sunday’s…

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St Gallen lose out to Lausanne

This content was published on May 13, 2001 Lausanne were the team in control on the pitch from the moment the referee blew the whistle and their tenacity paid off with a goal from Kuzba in the 18th minute. A second goal courtesy of Masudi on the final whistle confirmed their victory. Despite the defeat, St Gallen retain their lead at the top…

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