Australia

The International Cricket Council (ICC) wants its members to relinquish their existing powers in order to tackle the divisive problem of corruption in the game.

US oil giant Texaco Inc has backed out of an agreement with Sydney Olympic organisers under which it would have provided more than A$10 million ($6.3 million) worth of fuel for the 2000 Games.

World soccer's most knowledgeable medical expert says the sport will never agree to a blanket two-year ban for serious doping offences as long as he has influence within the game.

South Africa's rugby boss Silas Nkanunu has said the Springboks' World Cup squad should be more racially representative and team selection needed to take into account the injustices of apartheid.

A politician who oversaw Sydney's winning 2000 Olympic bid has urged veteran IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch to take responsibility for a vote-buying scandal and resign.

An official audit has revealed the hidden costs for Sydney taxpayers of the 2000 Olympic Games, but its most potentially explosive section contained no alarming costings at all.

The Canterbury Bulldogs have announced they are to play their National Rugby League (NRL) home matches at Sydney's Olympic Stadium this season.

The Association of Tennis Proessionals will seek to double the sport's current penalty for doping to two years, bringing them into line with International Olympic Committee guidelines.

The Salt Lake City Olympic bribery scandal could be on the verge of costing the International Olympic Committee (IOC) one its biggest sponsors, according to reports in Europe.

New South Wales Police Minister Paul Whelan has called for cricket hooliganism to be included on the agenda at the next national conference of state police ministers.

Former world number one Jim Courier has made explosive new allegations of doping, saying tennis players could be cheating to keep up with the punishing professional tour.

The 2000 Olympic Games will boost Australia's economy by A$6.5 billion (US$4.2 billion) over the 12 years to mid-2006, according to a new study.

Olympic heads are almost certain to roll when a probe into alleged bribery is concluded at the weekend but Juan Antonio Samaranch, the most powerful man in the movement, will not be one of them, according to a Reuters report.

The Australian state of New South Wales has said it will publish key 2000 Olympic Games contracts that had been kept secret for years.

Britain's Culture Secretary Chris Smith has said that future bidding for Olympic games must be honest and above board if Britain is to take part.

Juan Antonio Samaranch has not yet got himself and his movement out of the worst storm to hit the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for decades.