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The bidding process by cities hoping to host the Olympic games has been open to abuse for years and needs a radical revamp, the mayor of Cape Town, which failed to win the 2004 Games, has said.

The cheapest of more than two million tickets for this year's rugby union World Cup will be priced at just #4 ($6.56) while the most expensive, for the final on November 6 in Cardiff, will cost #150.

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Argentina's striking soccer players will meet President Carlos Menem on today in a bid to resolve the on-going dispute.

Argentina's first division soccer players will stay on strike despite a meeting with President Carlos Menem on Thursday.

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Quepasa!com will sponsor Fox Sports World Espanol's network coverage of the Copa America '99 which begins on June 29.
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Hyper-inflation has returned to the European soccer transfer market when Internazionale of Milan announced it had signed star striker Christian Vieri from Lazio of Rome in a world record deal worth L80bn ($43m).

Lisbon is expected to launch its second bid this year to host a major sports event.
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DIRECTV, the leading US digital pay-TV entertainment service, has reached an affiliate agreement with FOX Sports World to offer the network on the DIRECTV programming line-up beginning September 1, 1999.
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The Argentinian government has agreed to show its national football team?s game with Brazil tonight on free-to-air television.
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Brazilian football has become entrenched in political infighting as soccer chief Ricardo Teixiera, stung by damaging allegations and incidents this month, tries desperately to cling to power.
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Brazilian soccer's latest scandal has taken a new twist after a private meeting of the country's leading directors was secretly recorded and then broadcast by a radio station.

The Argentine domestic season will finally get under way at the weekend two weeks later than planned after the second players' strike of the year delayed the start.

Terms of the agreement struck to settle the Argentinean soccer strike have begun to emerge ? with all cash owed to players being placed in trust with Banco Credicoop.
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David Ginola is set for a legal fight with Aston Villa, claiming he was subjected to defamatory remarks about his physique.
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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.
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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.

The strike in Argentine football is set to continue after the Argentine football federation (AFA) failed to raise the cash in time for a meeting this week in Buenos Aires.

Argentine clubs are still desperately trying to find cash to end the second players' strike of the year over unpaid wages and bonuses.