Bern – Our Spirit

Our Spirit is how it feels to be a Two Circler, as lived today. It’s not aspirational or a target. It is what we are right now.

We live it together, it is on each of us to make it true. It’s a standard we must all set for ourselves and our teams.

Always changing, always staying the same.

We also know that sport encapsulates spirit better than anything else. Each element of our spirit is captured every minute of every day around the world on pitches, courts, tracks and courses around the world, from professional areas to local playgrounds.

And sometimes, a picture paints a thousand words…

United in our vision

On June 24, 1995, at Johannesburg’s Ellis Park Stadium, South Africa won the Rugby World Cup 15-12 over its arch-rival New Zealand. The match stands as a hugely symbolic moment in South African history. It marked the nation’s first major sporting event since the end of its segregationist apartheid regime in 1991. And in a masterful act of statecraft conducted squarely in the international spotlight, President Nelson Mandela orchestrated a show of unity in one of the world’s most bitterly divided nations, using the slogan “One Team, One Country.”

Anything is possible

Prior to the war in Syria, Yusra was a competitive swimmer who represented her country in international competitions. As the war intensified, Yusra and her sister left Damascus in early August 2015 and reached Berlin in September 2015.

Since then, Yusra has been training at the Wasserfreunde Spandau 04 club, which is a partner of the Elite Schools of Sport in Berlin. She was selected to compete at Rio 2016 as part of the first ever Refugee Olympic Team, and was appointed the youngest ever UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in April 2017.

Supportive and collaborative

Switzerland has won the first running of the Alpine skiing team event at an Olympic Winter Games, defeating Austria 3-1 to take the gold medal at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre on Saturday 24 February. The Swiss team of Denise Feierabend, Ramon Zenhaeusern, Wendy Holdener and Daniel Yule defeated Germany in the quarter-finals and France in the semi-finals to match up against the Austrian squad of Katharina Liensberger, Michael Matt, Katharina Gallhuber and Marco Schwarz.

Energy and Enjoyment

Nicola Spirig

High Performance and Stretch

Eliud Kipchoge proved No Human Is Limited when he became the first human in history to run a sub-two-hour marathon in the city of Vienna, Austria this morning. Kipchoge ran the 42.195KM distance in a remarkable time of 1:59:40:2.