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The official Olympic Games internet site has already attracted 7.2 billion hits, surpassing the original estimate of 6.5 billion with six days of competition still remaining.

BSkyB has added to its line-up of tennis by securing the rights to this year?s Davis Cup final.

Swedish internet archive and search system provider TietoEnator has delivered additional licences for its service to Australia's largest newspaper Group, John Fairfax.

Britain's five-times Olympic rowing champion Steve Redgrave is hoping to launch a new Formula One-styled championship for the sport.

Senior officials behind the Sydney Olympics could be offered consultancy contracts for the Athens Games in 2004.

IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch and the vice-president and minister for foreign affairs of Greece, George Papandreou, will host a joint press conference on Wednesday in Sydney on the establishment of the International Olympic Truce Centre.

Weightlifting's world governing body has said there was no question of Bulgaria's disgraced lifting team paying a $50,000 fine to gain readmission to the Olympic Games.

South Africa has called for several team sports to be axed from the Olympic games because they were unnecessary and put the event beyond the financial reach of most developing countries.

A senior Olympic official paid Sydney a glowing tribute at the midway stage of the Summer Games on Friday for putting on what he said could turn out to be a "magic" Olympics.

The International Amateur Athletic Federation's doping chief has accused the US of covering up drugs cases among their own athletes, saying 10 or 12 had tested positive over the last two years.

Two of the riders representing Spain at the Sydney Olympics will be joining the Linda McCartney Foods Procycling team next season a spokesman for their present team has confirmed.

Sydney 2000 is heading for a sell-out with only 400,000 tickets left for the last 10 days of the millennium Olympics, according to Games? organisers.

IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch has made his first public appearance in Sydney since the death of his wife at the weekend.

NBC, already feeling the heat from disappointing TV ratings for its Olympics coverage, has suffered another blow, when traffic to its Olympics web site reportedly fell 35 percent among home users in one day.

Australia?s Seven Network is losing viewers to its two Olympic pay-TV channels following complaints about the network?s free-to-air coverage.

Strong interest in the Olympics is driving up the audience of New Zealand websites, according to research company AC Nielsen.