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The opening leg of the UIM Formula 1 Powerboat World Championship in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, will be used as a benchmark for other venues of the 14-round UIM world championship

Romania on Friday extended a ban on referee Florin Chivulete after he was accused of offering women to match officials, ruling him out of domestic as well as international soccer.

Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger will be receiving a special honour for his athletic accomplishments and his philanthropic work at the 2nd Annual World Sports Awards.

The British Broadcasting Corporation?s Outside Broadcasts Special Facilities team is to install the world's first slalom gate cameras for a new extreme sports event in Stockholm.

The men's and women's World Cup cross country skiing events scheduled for Seefeld, Austria, on December 17 were called off because of a shortage of snow, the Austrian ski federation said on Wednesday.

Austrian and Swiss soccer federation officials met in Vienna on Tuesday to discuss a possible joint bid to hold the 2008 European championship finals.

The ski jumping and Nordic combination events scheduled for Ramsau, Austria, from December 8-10 have had to be called off because of unseasonally warm weather, the Austrian ski federation has said.

Romanian side Ceahlaul Piatra Neamt's appeal against a one year ban from European club competition has been rejected by UEFA.

Ten cities have submitted bids to be the permanent headquarters of the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA).

Romanian soccer club Ceahlaul Piatra Neamt have been banned from European competitions for five years by UEFA, after allegations that prostitutes were offered to match officials in charge of an Intertoto Cup game in July.

Red Star Belgrade, who are appealing against a UEFA decision to play the home leg of their UEFA Cup first round tie with Leicester City away from Belgrade, have picked Vienna and Skopje as alternative venues.

IEC in Sports has acquired all international television rights to the JVC Ladies Open in Vienna next month.

Holders Real Madrid will find out their first opponents in the 2000/2001 Champions League on

iN Demand, the US pay-per-view network, is to showcase its first-ever sports production this autumn with the debut of five Sanex WTA Tour tournaments.

The Extreme Sports Channel has signed a deal with United Sport to broadcast Wake Up!

Austria's soccer federation has been approached by Switzerland's head of state Adolf Ogi to discuss a possible joint-bid for Euro 2008, according to local media reports.