The Swiss Fencing Association apologised Sunday after the country's youth team sparked a diplomatic row by refusing to face the flag of the Israeli winners at the European championships in Estonia this weekend.
More than two dozen hikers and climbers have died so far in 2023 in the mountains of the Swiss canton of Valais, prompting police authorities to strengthen its rescue unit. Why are the Alps claiming so many lives?
Switzerland has four official languages: German, French, Italian, and Romansh. But the support for the national football team, has no (linguistic) borders, as The Local found out ahead of Switzerland’s match against Italy on Friday.
Our round up of stories you might have missed this week include calls for a municipal secretary to be dismissed after social media comments, major SBB repairs, fake meat, sports deaths and more.
A fair play award is to be established using the cash penalty imposed on table tennis champion Zhang Jike after he celebrated his World Cup final win by kicking down advertising hoardings, Lausanne-based governing authorities for the sport said on Wednesday.
<p><span lang="EN-US">The body of former Swiss national team player Peter Jaks was found on railway tracks near Santo Spirito on the southwest cost of Italy early on Wednesday morning.</span></p>
<p>Switzerland was the world's best destination for adventure travel in 2010, according to a new ranking. The country's untouched nature, good infrastructure and friendliness impressed the study's authors.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">A new Swiss education campaign has been launched with the aim of reducing accidents in ball sports by 10 percent by 2014.</span></p>
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