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...km/h and sliced through the orange Kevlar netting that bordered the run in an especially violent crash during the season's opening World Cup downhill race at Val d'Isère. His spine was broken between the sixth and seventh vertebrae, leaving the 22-year-old Swiss skier paralyzed from the waist down. Beltrametti recently told a press conference: "I lived for skiing, 24 hours a day, but that time is behind me now. In a second all my dreams, goals and visions came to nothing...
...taking the crisp morning air in St. Moritz, high in the Swiss Alps, preparing for another day of arduous sportswriting labor-the World Bobsleigh Championships, I believe. Let's see: start with a hot chocolate, a brisk ski across the lake, maybe lunch at the Palace and then...
Davidson, in no way as inured to the cruelties of big-time athletics as Warner, becomes the latest sad chapter in bobsled's legacy of oustings. In 1976 Swiss driver Erich Scharer ejected his brother three days before the Olympics; he won two medals. Just this season the woman who took Racine's mantle as top gun and gold-medal favorite, Germany's Susi-Lisa Erdmann, had four different partners...
...gesture of solidarity when the World Economic Forum shifted its annual gathering to New York City from its usual site in Davos, Switzerland. But already we're hearing wistful whispers from some who plan to attend the conference at the end of January and say they will miss the Swiss ski resort's quiet charm. They lament that they often can't tell whether their dinner partner said "four milling daughters" or "40 million dollars" in Manhattan restaurants where the tables are inches apart and the music is set on stun...
...spring of 1952, Tenzing Norgay joined a Swiss climbing team. From the start he demonstrated extraordinary leadership. As he led the three Sherpas and seven Swiss climbers toward the South Col at 7,925 m, they were stopped by savage winds and forced to bivouac 153 m below the day's goal. Tashi Tenzing writes, "My grandfather stayed in the Sherpa tent to keep them company. He managed to cook some soup and the Swiss were incredulous when, roped to keep himself from being blown off the face, he appeared at their tent with hot food and drink." The next...