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Australian Olympic officials do not know how Kenya used a US$10,000 payment aimed at securing the 2002 Games for Sydney, the Sydney Morning Herald has said.
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A U.S. insurance giant and major Olympic sponsor has said the committee responsible for Sydney's successful bid for the 2000 Games appeared to have been involved in bribery.

Kenyan cricket chiefs have asked the sport's world governing body for more international matches following the recent West Indies tour of the country.
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Trans World International (TWI) has signed a deal with the Kenyan Cricket Association (KCA) to develop television, new media and sponsorship rights.

Indian cricket chiefs have until today to provide assurances that they can host this year's ICC Cup.

Kenya's cricket team has given the country's governing body a list of demands and warned of possible strike action if their conditions were not met soon.
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Kenya is to host an international squash tournament sponsored by Lucozade Sport with 32 contestants from all over the world expected to compete.

The ICC has ordered all international cricket players, umpires and officials to declare their innocence of match-fixing by the end of November.

Some of cricket's leading figures were anxiously awaiting news of their fate after the International Cricket Council (ICC) began its executive board meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday.

Indian cricket authorities will release the names of four players suspected of match-fixing this week, a senior official attending the International Cricket Council (ICC) Board meeting in Nairobi, Kenya has revealed.

The executive board of the International Cricket Council (ICC) will focus on corruption within the game when it meets in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi next week.
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Kenya's High Court has stopped elections for the national athletics body scheduled to have taken place at the weekend, according to local media reports.

With an eye on Sydney's Olympic Games, shoe and apparel giant Nike has unveiled its space-age "Swift Suit" for sprinters.

Former world rally car champion Colin McRae has urged rally chiefs to adopt a Formula One-style approach to television coverage to increase the popularity of the sport.

The Kenyan government has dissolved the country's troubled soccer governing body and suspended all fixtures until new officials are elected later this month.

Dutch soccer side Ajax Amsterdam has taken a 51 percent stake in Ghana's Ashanti Goldfields Sporting Club Ltd.

At least 11 foreign teams will take part in a soccer tournament beginning in Dhaka on August 27, the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) has announced.
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A Ghanaian panel probing Africa's worst sports disaster recommended a number of policemen be prosecuted for their role in the death of 126 soccer fans at Accra's stadium in May, a panel member has said.