Winter in Europe wouldn't be winter without a bit of skiing, and this year Switzerland has its sights set on attracting a whole new group of amateur skiers to its slopes — the Chinese.
Swiss skier Lara Gut battled to a third-place finish after losing a pole in the World Cup women’s giant slalom race at Lenzerheide in the canton of Graubünden on Sunday.
Less than a month before a binding referendum in Graubünden, support for Switzerland’s bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics is slipping in the canton, where backers hope to stage the Games in St. Moritz and Davos.
Thoroughbreds nervously snort and stamp their hooves, their shiny coats glistening in the sun, before setting off, not around a traditional race track, but across a frozen lake with jockeys on skis hanging on for dear life behind them.
Swiss skier Lara Gut claimed a silver medal on Tuesday in the women’s super-G world championships at Schladming, Austria behind Slovenia’s Tina Maze in a race marred by the crash of American Lindsey Vonn.
Switzerland's Lara Gut won the women's World Cup downhill in Val d'Isère, France on Friday as the 21-year-old finished ahead of American Leanne Smith and fellow Swiss Nadja Kamer for the third win on the circuit.
A four-year-old boy escaped serious harm when the car he was travelling in flipped upside down onto a railway line and was crushed by an oncoming train in the canton of Graubünden on Wednesday.
<p>The Swiss resort of St-Moritz was designated Thursday as the host of the 2017 world alpine ski championships, following the International Ski Federation (FIS) congress in Kangwonland, South Korea.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;">The Bilderberg Group of some 100 political and economic leaders, as well as aristocrats, will meet from Thursday in the chic Swiss ski station of St Moritz.</span></p>
