THE road east out of Sörenberg rears up into a series of steep turns that climb the Glaubenbielen Pass, the high point of a road the Swiss Army punched through the Alps more than 60 years ago. Though the occasional car and bus make the journey to the top, these days much of the road belongs to cyclists. On a cool afternoon in mid-July I was one of...
Asafa Powell ran the fastest 100 meters in the world this year, winning in 9.78 seconds at the Athletissima track meet in Lausanne, Switzerland. Powell's sprint was 0.01 faster than the time of Tyson Gay on June 4 in Florida. The American Morgan Uceny won the 1,500 meters in 4 minutes 5.52 seconds. SPORTS BRIEFING | TRACK AND FIELD...
SWITZERLAND is rarely thought of as a wild artistic center. Most of us recall the harsh verdict of Harry Lime, the character played by Orson Welles in ''The Third Man,'' who declared that the country's most creative achievement was the cuckoo clock. It wasn't always so. A few centuries ago, Europe's most adventurous bohemians flocked to Lake Geneva...
Den Internationale Olympiske Komite (IOC) har sit hovedkvarter i Lausanne, hvor også det Olympiske museum ligger. Her finder man også Collection de l'Art Brut der er et kunstmuseum.