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BENJAMIN SOLAND
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Reason to celebrate: The Swiss women around Corinne Suter have won the national championship for women for the first time since 1995.
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AFP
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Compared to last season – when the Swiss women finished 3rd – two drivers in particular have improved. Michelle Gisin and …
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Getty Images
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… Lara Gut-Behrami. The Ticino won four Super-G wins and the discipline ball.
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keystone-sda.ch
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Women’s head coach Beat Tschuor praises the team and especially Michelle Gisin.
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Sven Thomann
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Alpine Director Walter Reusser knows: You can’t just rest on your success. Because: It doesn’t look as rosy among the youngsters as it does at the World Cup level.
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Do you remember the sporting year 1995? Roger Federer was 13 years old, traveled to Ecublens VD and from then on worked on his world career in tennis boarding school. The EHC Kloten was champion in ice hockey and GC in football. Michael Schumacher won his second Formula 1 title in the Benetton. And the Swiss women were number 1 in the world in skiing! What nobody suspected at the time: It would be the last nation triumph for the next 26 years.
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But now the black series has finally been broken. Last winter, Swiss-Ski won the Nations Cup for the first time since 1989. Mainly responsible at the time, however, were the men, the women also got a lot of points, but were only number 3 behind Italy and Austria. This small flaw has now been eliminated.
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