https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Swiss skier Lara Gut blew away speed queen Lindsey Vonn to snatch her first win in a year in the women's World Cup Super-G at Cortina d'Ampezzo on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180122/lara-gut-sweeps-to-world-cup-victory-in-windy-italy Mon, 22 Jan 2018 09:44:11 +0100 lara-gut-sweeps-to-world-cup-victory-in-windy-italy Swiss alpine skiing star Lara Gut says she found balance and made peace with herself during the latest lengthy lay off in her injury-blighted career. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170927/swiss-skier-gut-im-not-in-a-hurry-i-want-to-come-back-strong Wed, 27 Sep 2017 10:32:07 +0200 swiss-skier-gut-im-not-in-a-hurry-i-want-to-come-back-strong Switzerland's Lara Gut, whose World Ski Championships on home snow in St Moritz were cut short because of a serious knee injury, has undergone surgery in Geneva. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170224/gut-has-surgery-in-geneva-after-fall-at-world-champs Fri, 24 Feb 2017 09:30:16 +0100 gut-has-surgery-in-geneva-after-fall-at-world-champs Switzerland's Lara Gut is to undergo surgery on her left knee in the coming days, the Swiss team announced on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170215/swiss-ski-star-gut-to-have-knee-surgery Wed, 15 Feb 2017 09:28:01 +0100 swiss-ski-star-gut-to-have-knee-surgery Wendy Holdener made up for the absence of Lara Gut by leading Switzerland to a one-two in the women's world alpine combined in St Moritz on Friday after Gut fell in warm-up. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170210/gut-hospitalized-after-crashing-out-of-world-cup-race Fri, 10 Feb 2017 15:35:47 +0100 gut-hospitalized-after-crashing-out-of-world-cup-race Austrian Nicole Schmidhofer pulled off a shock victory in the women's super-G at the World Ski Championships on Tuesday as American star Lindsey Vonn failed to finish and Swiss favourite Lara Gut came third. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170207/swiss-star-gut-bumped-to-third-in-ski-world-champs Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:15:56 +0100 swiss-star-gut-bumped-to-third-in-ski-world-champs Swiss ski star Lara Gut won Sunday's women's super-G at French resort Val d'Isere to move to within five points of absent World Cup leader Mikaela Shiffrin. https://www.thelocal.ch/20161219/gut-notches-up-second-win-of-the-season Mon, 19 Dec 2016 09:22:07 +0100 gut-notches-up-second-win-of-the-season World Cup overall champion Lara Gut claimed the season opening women's super-G race at Lake Louise on Sunday, one day after finishing runner-up in the downhill. https://www.thelocal.ch/20161205/swiss-champ-gut-wins-seasons-first-super-g-in-canada Mon, 05 Dec 2016 09:20:35 +0100 swiss-champ-gut-wins-seasons-first-super-g-in-canada Switzerland's Lara Gut added the super-G title to her overall World Cup crown when coming second to Tina Weirather in the discipline's season-finale at Saint Moritz on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160317/ski-star-gut-finishes-season-with-super-g-title Thu, 17 Mar 2016 13:18:23 +0100 ski-star-gut-finishes-season-with-super-g-title American speed queen Lindsey Vonn crashed out of the women's World Cup downhill on Friday, allowing Swiss victor Lara Gut to leapfrog her back into top spot of the overall standings. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160219/gut-clinches-18th-world-cup-ski-victory Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:38:51 +0100 gut-clinches-18th-world-cup-ski-victory Swiss skiers Lara Gut and Carlo Janka bounced back on Sunday from earlier setbacks to claim Super-G victories in Germany and South Korea respectively. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160207/gut-and-janka-bounce-back-with-super-g-victories Sun, 07 Feb 2016 19:17:47 +0100 gut-and-janka-bounce-back-with-super-g-victories Swiss skier Sandro Viletta, the reigning Olympic super-combined champion, has been forced to cut short his season because of a right knee injury, the Swiss federation announced on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160112/injury-sidelines-swiss-olympic-ski-champion Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:54:46 +0100 injury-sidelines-swiss-olympic-ski-champion Slovenia's Peter Prevc maintained his hot streak when claiming Sunday's men's World Cup ski jump at Engelberg in the Swiss Alps to add to his win at the Swiss resort 24 hours earlier. https://www.thelocal.ch/20151220/ammann-fails-to-rise-to-win-before-hometown-crowd Sun, 20 Dec 2015 23:09:18 +0100 ammann-fails-to-rise-to-win-before-hometown-crowd Swiss Lara Gut has captured her 13th career Alpine Skiing Women's World Cup victory in a giant slalom race in Aspen, Colorado after a late fall by American Mikaela Shiffrin. https://www.thelocal.ch/20151129/gut-captures-slalom-victory-at-aspen Sun, 29 Nov 2015 15:51:19 +0100 gut-captures-slalom-victory-at-aspen Swiss skier Didier Défago came second in the Wednesday’s downhill race at Méribel in France, to cap the final season of his career. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150318/dfago-clinches-second-place-in-mribel-downhill Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:58:14 +0100 dfago-clinches-second-place-in-mribel-downhill (UPDATED) Swiss skiing star Lara Gut won the first Super-G race of the World Cup season at Lake Louise, Canada on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20141207/switzerlands-gut-wins-super-g-at-lake-louise Mon, 08 Dec 2014 00:20:00 +0100 switzerlands-gut-wins-super-g-at-lake-louise Switzerland beat the United States to win the mixed team event at the alpine skiing World Cup finals on home snow at Lenzerheide on Friday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140314/swiss-win-mixed-team-event-at-lenzerheide Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:46:00 +0100 swiss-win-mixed-team-event-at-lenzerheide Swiss skier Lara Gut won her second competition in as many days on Thursday at Lenzerheide in the canton of Graubünden to capture the World Cup title for super-G. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140313/gut-claims-super-g-title-with-second-lenzerheide-win Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:08:00 +0100 gut-claims-super-g-title-with-second-lenzerheide-win Swiss skier Lara Gut came first in the World Cup women’s alpine skiing downhill race on Wednesday before a home crowd at Lenzerheide in the canton of Graubünden. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140312/gut-wins-lenzerheide-world-cup-downhill Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:42:00 +0100 gut-wins-lenzerheide-world-cup-downhill Swiss skier Lara Gut achieved a podium finish in the giant slalom race at Åre, Sweden on Thursday, four days after a disappointing elimination from the downhill at Crans-Montana in her home country when she slightly injured her right knee. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140306/gut-rebounds-from-knee-injury-for-podium-win Thu, 06 Mar 2014 22:48:00 +0100 gut-rebounds-from-knee-injury-for-podium-win