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BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss Post was cheering on the Swiss hockey team last weekend, it seems, when they tied their skates for the semi-finals and finals of the World Cup. Now there’s a new stamp to celebrate the feat. From Swiss Post today: “The members of Switzerland’s national ice hockey team made Swiss sporting history [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Drivers, plan ahead: the Tour du Pays de Vaud cycling race will cause a number of roadblocks and slowdowns from Thursday to Sunday, 23-26 May. Traffic in the direction opposite the race will generally be stopped for stretches at times that depend on where the racers are, and drivers are cautioned to [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss ice hockey team thrilled everyone by making it to the finals of the World Cup for the first time ever, then underplayed a sharper Swedish team Sunday to lose 5-1 in Stockholm. In football, Zurich Grasshoppers Club defeated Basel in what is being widely hailed as a well-deserved win, 1-1, [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Final score 3-0 with Switzerland defeating the US in hockey – and for the first time in Swiss history, moving onto the finals Sunday! Switzerland plays Sweden for the world title Sunday at 20:30. The magic word: believe. Details, recounted breathlessly! RTS (Fre)
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Swiss football has a ways to go before making the top 10 in Fifa world rankings, but it is inching its way up and is now in 14th place. Bad news for Brazilian fans, whose country will be hosting the next World Cup, is that their own football is slipping in the [...]
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – India will return to the Olympics after agreeing Wednesday in Lausanne to hold new elections, the Times of India reported late Wednesday 15 May. Indian media have been heavily covering the visit by national committee officials to Lausanne for the meeting. The country’s national Olympic Committee was banned in 2012, with the [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – French politicians and media are reacting angrily to the violence that erupted Monday nght 14 May at Place de la Trocadero in Paris when Paris SG was being awarded the trophy as France’s top football club. Twenty-one people were injured, including three police officers, in the fight that broke out, with bottles, [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Scottish climber Ben O’Connor-Croft and French Haute-Savoie mountain guide Patrick Gabarrou 26 April were the first to climb what they have named René Croft, a corridor with slopes of 90 degrees that is part of the Mont Blanc massif. Gabarrou announced the news Monday, saying they had slept on a narrow shelf, [...]
BASEL, SWITZERLAND / FOOTBALL – Tonight’s the night Chelsea will be looking to move ahead to a second consecutive European cup final as they play FC Basel in a Europa League semi-final second leg match in the UK. Chelsea has the aggregate and away-goal advantage after a 2-1 win at St Jakob’s park, but Basel [...]
BASEL, SWITZERLAND / TENNIS – Stan Wawrinka, canton Vaud resident and world number 16 whose game has recently been heating up, said 1 May that he is hiring Magnus Norman as his coach. Norman, who is Swedish, was formerly world number 2 and a finalist in the 2000 French Open. Daily Tennis News Wire reports [...]
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