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Too many drivers slow down just for fixed radars LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Stan Wawrinka, best known as a tennis player and Olympic champion, is the new poster boy for canton Vaud’s “the road isn’t my racetrack” police campaign. His face will appear on some 1,700 giant posters in every commune in Vaud for its annual [...]
Sion, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss skier and Olympic downhill champion Didier Defago will likely be out for the season, after tearing a knee ligament during a fall in training in Zermatt Wednesday 15 September. The 32-year-old skier will be operated on Saturday at the Hopital de la Tour in Geneva by the ski team’s head [...]
International sports, Tour de France cycling [video of dog crash] Brussels, Belgium (GenevaLunch) – Fabian Cancellara kept the leader’s yellow jersey at the end of the first full day’s racing of the 2010 Tour de France. The Swiss world and Olympic champion finished with the pack in a chaotic finish that featured a number of [...]
Ninove, Belgium (GenevaLunch) – Fabian Cancellara, the Swiss Olympic road race champion, won the Tour of Flanders to become only the 11th rider to win the three spring classics. He won Milan-San Remo in 2008 and Paris-Roubaix in 2006. Belgian riders Tom Boonen and Philippe Gilbert were next in this year’s race. Lance Armstrong was [...]
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