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Stéphane Fournier wrote an article in the local paper and asked the question: Will a spirit of catastrophe threaten [Team Nati]? Bernard Challandes, wise coach of FC Zurich replied:
No. I don’t believe it will. What is essential for the players to do is to hold on to what is positive. There were some positive [...]

Last night, Switzerland lost the opening match of Euro 2008 after playing a terrific game against Czech Republic. The Nati lost their best offensive player to a knee injury in the 44th minute. Sad. The Czechs scored in their only real opportunity. Very sad. Then the ref missed a Czech hand in the penalty box [...]

Sorry, but European football may be a reoccurring motif in the weeks to come. The European Cup of Nations starts on Friday night. Teams have been arriving in Switzerland over the last couple of days. Some of the host cities to the teams are swamped with fans who have shown up to get a glimpse [...]

-Your comments on the biking post cracked me up. Sore rears and climbing hills outside of Châlet-à-Gobet (the highest point in Lausanne) and all. Come on over for a ride.
-Last night the mighty Manchester United beat the London club Chelsea to take the Champions’ cup, the European "Superbowl" of football (soccer). The final went to [...]

I have a new bike that I bought just before Christmas. I have had trouble putting the miles on it since Wife and I have been running much more than biking, and it has been hard to impossible to do the two, especially with the colder weather we’ve had this Spring. When it’s cold and [...]

Great things will be happening in Switzerland starting June 7 at 6 PM when the Swiss National Football Team (soccer) kicks off the European Cup Championship. This event happens every 4 years. Austria and Switzerland are the double hosts this time, which allows their teams automatically qualify and obligates government authorities to spend gazillions on [...]

Wife and I ran a 15K on Saturday near Bern (Kerzers). Fantastic race weather with temps in the low 60’s. I was shooting for just-under-five-minute kilometers, hoping to finish in 1:13. It’s a tough race with 150 feet of climbing in the first kilometer, followed by level then some downhill, then very steep uphill on [...]

Wife strung together 21 straight five minute kilometers and finished strong in a cold (45 degree) head-wind that whipped along at about 30 kilometers an hour (which, according to my math, means she was running at 42 kilometers per hour, or 26 mph… Pretty fast, huh?).
To see her cross the finish line, go here, then [...]

Check out this link about La Lutte Suisse… Swiss Wrestling. 200,000 people attended the weekend sporting event which is also called Lutte à la culotte (which means, and I am not making this up, wrestling in your underwear).
This is a national sport, believe it or not. And if you win the championship, they give you [...]

Yes. Roger Federer was able to serve by his opponent Sunday, the overly biceped Rafael Nadal, who is getting way too good on grass.
I got a hold of Monsieur Federer on his portable just a few minutes after the match. The conversation went something like this:
Me: Congratulations on the win. We were on the [...]