Argentina

Argentine cycling is facing a cash crisis with the national cycling federation unable to afford to send a team to the World Cup which gets underway in Mexico on Friday.

A Colombian soccer director is demanding sanctions against Argentina for missing last month's Copa America, which went ahead in the Andean nation at six days' notice after earlier being postponed until 2002.

China has set up a 76-member committee to organise Beijing's bid for the 2008 Olympic Games.

Safety chiefs are checking the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff before this weekend?s World Cup game between Wales and Japan to ensure there is no repeat of last week's incident when a woman was injured by debris falling from the roof.

Argentine judge Tomas Bravo has ordered the arrest of 29 former top officials - including three ex-presidents - of the renowned Division A soccer club Racing under charges of fraudulent administration.

The president of the Colombian soccer federation (FCF), Fina Alvaro has dclared he has the support from FIFA for a 16-team Copa America in 2001 in Colombia, according to the soccer industry newsletter Soccer Investor Weekly Bulletin.

South Africa's 2006 World Cup bid committee will concentrate on the "nuts and bolts" of staging the event in its campaign rather than an emotional appeal for Africa.

The World Cup of Golf will become the fourth World Golf Championship next year with a change in format, it has been announced.

Malaysia will replace Argentina as the venue for a world motorcycling championship race on April 2 next year, officials have said.

EMC Corporation, a global provider of enterprise storage systems, software and services, has signed with the International Federation of PGA Tours to become the title sponsor of golf's World Cup and an umbrella sponsor of the World Golf Championships.

Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc has formed a strategic alliance with Spain's Telefonica S.A. in a deal worth about $4billion which should allow Hicks, Muse to further expand its cable television assets in Latin America.

A judge in soccer-mad Argentina has suspended play in the national league because of recent outbreaks of violence.

Australian rugby's most powerful administrator has warned British teams that they risk being snubbed by Australia if they persist in picking weakened squads to tour Down Under.

Angry Bangladesh soccer fans in the coastal Cox's Bazar district ransacking the place when power failed during the opening match of the World Cup.

Bangladesh soccer fans, angry over power failures that have stopped them viewing World Cup soccer matches, have called for a half-day general strike

Outbreaks of hooliganism by English and German fans in France should not affect those nations' bids to stage the 2006 World Cup finals, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said.