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Adidas, the world's leading soccer brand, has signed with the Argentinean Football Federation (AFA) to equip the Argentinean national team on the road to the World Cup finals in 2002.

Democratic countries should consider boycotting the 2008 Olympic Games if China fails to show improvements on human rights, the president of the European Parliament has stated.

Olympic leaders, having awarded the 2008 Games to Beijing, have switched their attention onto who will be the successor to Juan Antonio Samaranch as IOC president.

China plans to launch a special lottery to help finance the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Juan Antonio Samaranch just could not ride off quietly into his Olympic sunset.

A squad of top NBA players will visit China and Taiwan in September for two exhibition games, the National Basketball Association has announced.

The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) decision to award Beijing the Olympic Games in 2008 has been criticised by human rights interest group Amnesty International.

Beijing’s hotels were flooded with calls just minutes after the Chinese capital won their bid to host the 2008 Olympics.

Encouraged by the success of communist Beijing being awarded the 2008 Olympics, Cuba has announced its intention to bid for the 2012 event.

Ninety percent of the population of Beijing tuned into the broadcast of the Olympic vote on the host city for the 2008 Games which saw the Chinese capital emerge victorious.

Beijing seems to be cruising towards victory in the race to stage the 2008 Olympic Games, despite human rights demonstrations on the IOC’s doorstep and Chinese stadiums that currently exist only as computer graphics.

Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis's lawsuit to force champion Hasim Rahman to make his first title defense against the Briton has begun in the U.S. Federal court.

The 2002 Tennis Masters Cup, the season-ending tournament for men co-owned by the ATP, the Grand Slams and the International Tennis Federation, will be staged by Shanghai.

David D'Alessandro, chairman and CEO of John Hancock Financial Services, one of the ten TOP Olympic Games sponsors, has warned the Olympic movement that the next IOC president must deliver credible TV ratings in the US market or face “deeper economic problems” in the longer term.

China is in line for a billion-dollar pay day if Beijing wins the right to stage the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Boxing promoter Don King and TV network HBO have scrapped the planned heavyweight showdown between John Ruiz and Evander Holyfield.