Switzerland At The 2004 Summer Olympics
Switzerland competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. 98 competitors, 59 men and 39 women, took part in 83 events in 19 sports.
Read more about Switzerland At The 2004 Summer Olympics: Medalists, Athletics, Beach Volleyball, Diving, Equestrianism, Fencing, Gymnastics, Judo, Modern Pentathlon, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Swimming, Synchronized Swimming, Tennis, Trampolining, Triathlon, Non-competing Athletes, Officials
Famous quotes containing the words switzerland and/or summer:
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)
“Back now to autumn, leaving the ended husk
Of summer that brought them here for Show Saturday
The men with hunters, dog-breeding wool-defined women,
Children all saddle-swank, mugfaced middleaged wives
Glaring at jellies, husbands on leave from the garden
Watchful as weasels, car-tuning curt-haired sons
Back now, all of them, to their local lives....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)