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The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) will spend A$17.8 million (US$13.7 million) to help top athletes prepare for the 2008 Games, reports Reuters.

Russell Wolff has been promoted to executive vice president and managing director, ESPN International.

The British Grand Prix may now be on next year's calendar after nine of the 10 Formula One teams agreed to cost-cutting measures that could allow the race to take place on July 3.

Deluxe Scotch whisky Johnnie Walker has announced Beijing as the host city of golf’s 2005 Johnnie Walker Classic.

The head of the IOC’s marketing commission says a three-day visit to Beijing this week to meet with current and potential sponsors “has gone very well”.

Australian Alan Jones has become the second ex-Formula One world champion to link up with the new A1 Grand Prix series.

Australian Alan Jones has become the second ex-Formula One world champion to link up with the new A1 Grand Prix series.

The head of an International Olympic Committee inspection team says plans for the 2008 Olympics cannot progress efficiently until organisers settle changes involving a number of venues.

Chinese soccer's ruling body cancelled relegation from the country's top league after clubs expressed concern about match-fixing and threatened to withdraw from the Super League over the way the sport is run.

Elite Sports Properties, Australia’s leading sports marketing company, and China Sports Industries, responsible for the development of China’s rapidly growing sports industry, have formed a new joint venture company.

One of world’s leading Olympics experts is retiring from his post at the Australian Olympic Committee.

China's capital is racing against time to hit its clean air target of 227 days this year, ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games.

Mexico has been awarded a Formula One Grand Prix after a 12-year hiatus, it was announced by Mexican authorities.

The US will host its first MotoGP race for more than ten years after Laguna Seca was confirmed on the 2005 racing calendar.

With the NBA set to play its first ever game in China today, commissioner David Stern has hinted regular season games could be held in the country.

Television coverage of this year’s Athens Olympic Games smashed previous records, IOC president Jacques Rogge has confirmed during this week’s Sportel – with almost four billion of the world’s population tuning in to the event.