1.   And the race marked the final appearance of Heidi Zurbriggen, sister of famed Swiss skier Pirmin.

2.   Like many poor farmers in a country with little flat land, Santos has had to scratch his fields into slopes whose grade would challenge a Swiss skier.

3.   Meanwhile Swiss skier Silvano Beltrametti, paralyzed from the waist down after a World Cup downhill tumble last month, says he has accepted life in a wheelchair.

4.   Steiner later encouraged Ammann to jump, but eventually Ammann ran into an obstacle that keeps all Swiss skiers down.

5.   Last season the soft-spoken Swiss skier won five World Cup giant slalom events.

6.   Last week in Tignes Brenner beat two other Swiss skiers.

7.   Swiss skier Bruno Kernen was ready to take early retirement just over a year ago.

8.   Stephan Eberharter of Austria took his second straight World Cup victory, narrowly winning a downhill in which a young Swiss skier was paralyzed in a crash.

9.   Swiss skier Claudio Collenberg crashed and was taken by helicopter with what appeared to be minor injuries.

10.   Swiss skiers were second and third.