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Italian triumph in final stage of Tour de Romandie

This content was published on May 13, 2001 After a gruelling 178km endurance test from Saxon to the finishing line in the city of Geneva, Cippolini finished the race in 4 hours 9 minutes and 51 seconds, just ahead of Germany’s Danilo Hondo. Cippolini has won the last stage of the Tour de Romandie five times in the course of his professional career.…

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Hingis stumbles to Mauresmo in Berlin

This content was published on May 13, 2001 Hingis lost in three sets, 3-6, 6-0, 6-4. Although the Swiss star took the first set, Mauresmo fought back and dominated play during the rest of the match. Hingis tried to find her form in the final set, coming back from 1-5 to 4-5, but scoring only once on her serve, the outcome of the…

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Swiss grabs third place in Tour de Romandie

This content was published on May 12, 2001 After a furious sprint, Montgomery finished just behind the Spaniard Manuel Beltran, and three seconds from the winner of Saturday’s race, Italy’s Gilberto Simoni. The Swiss racer is now 1’54” behind the current leader of the Tour, Dario Frigo, who finished sixth. In the overall rankings, Frigo is 43 seconds ahead of Spain’s Felix Garcia…

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St Otmar St Gallen crowned handball champions

This content was published on May 12, 2001 With the series level at 1-1 before Saturday’s decisive final leg, both teams went into the match knowing that defeat would bring to an end all hope of taking the championship. Narrow victories by both teams in the previous two encounters of the series – 26-27 to St Otmar in the first and 31-30 to…

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Deiss wraps up visit to Jordan following human security meeting

This content was published on May 12, 2001 The two-day meeting in the city of Petra, attended by thirteen countries including Switzerland, focused on the issue of security and stability in the Middle East. The countries gave their backing to the latest Middle East peace plan, drawn up by Jordan and Egypt, aimed at ending the continuing violence between Israel and the Palestinians.…

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Lugano Snakes whitewash Lausanne to take basketball finals

This content was published on May 12, 2001 Victory for Lugano, one of the most dominant sides in Swiss basketball, was widely expected, but Lausanne still fought a tough match, forcing their opponents into extra time after the score remained level 87-87 at the end of the final quarter. Lugano showed why they deserved to win only in the dying minutes of the…

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Grasshoppers on top

This content was published on May 11, 2001 The 11,200 fans who packed into Grasshoppers’ Hardturm stadium were treated to a local derby that had everything: goals, end-to-end action and a hat-trick from the home side hero, Nunez. The result means that Grasshoppers are now level on points with defending champions St Gallen, who play Lausanne away on Saturday. FC Zurich remain in…

Frigo grabs lead in Romandie

This content was published on May 11, 2001 Spain’s David Plaza finished the time trial through Payerne in first place, less than a second ahead of Frigo, to move up to third in the overall standings, with just two stages to go. Saturday’s fourth stage is likely to be the most demanding yet though, as the teams head for a 167-kilometre mountain chase…

Hingis through to last four in Berlin

This content was published on May 11, 2001 Switzerland’s world number one enjoyed her third straight sets win of the week but Friday’s match was far tougher than her previous wins over Tathiana Garbin and Nathalie Déchy. After losing the opening set 3-6, Sanchez-Vicario came back strongly to take the second set into a tie-break. But Hingis held her nerve to win through…

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Swiss grant citizenship to Osama bin Laden’s half brother

This content was published on May 11, 2001 Yeslam bin Laden’s lawyers on Friday confirmed a newspaper report that Geneva’s parliament had approved his naturalisation, overturning a decision by the cantonal government last September. In a statement, bin Laden’s lawyers said: “Mr Yeslam bin Laden is very grateful to Geneva’s [parliament] for having restored his honour in rejecting the unfair and unjustified rumours…

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