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France stayed ahead of Brazil atop of the FIFA world soccer rankings for a third straight month, while Germany climbed three places to fifth.

The UEFA executive committee will hold a meeting next week in the Czech Republic – with its business plan for 2002 top of the agenda.

English based multi soccer club owner Enic has denied selling its 33 percent stake in Greek outfit AEK Athens. A club statement said that Enic had sold the stake to Greek company Ippoventure SA.

UK broadcaster Channel 4 has agreed to commission a special programme focusing on triathlon’s European Cup competition.

A new crowd-pleasing motor-racing Grand Prix series featuring cars racing in the livery of Europe’s top soccer clubs is aiming to reach one billion viewers in its first season, sportbusiness.com can reveal.

Soccer fans in the former communist East Germany still love to remind their western neighbours of the only time that East and West Germany played each other, in the 1974 World Cup.

Yugoslavia's three teams competing in the UEFA Cup will play their "home" matches in the Netherlands, Bulgaria and Macedonia.

The U.S. women's World Cup winning soccer team will boycott the Australia Cup next month because of unresolved contract negotiations. Instead, The U.S. Soccer Federation will send young players to the four-nation tournament.

International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch says he will welcome NHL players at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

ENIC Plc, which controls three European soccer clubs, has said that European soccer authority UEFA's decision to block clubs with common ownership from playing each other in European competition is in breach of European Union law.

PR company Bell Pottinger Communications has a new role in sport.

A Czech company has sent 2,000 condoms, each tipped with a soccer ball and the flag of a participating nation, to the World Cup tournament in France.

Greek club AEK Athens won't be allowed to participate in the upcoming UEFA Cup competition unless its ownership changes by July 1, the Greek Football Federation (EPO) said on Thursday.

British investment group ENIC has said it has won court clearance for AEK Athens and Slavia Prague to play in the UEFA Cup next season.

Czech soccer club AC Sparta Prague may be up for sale, a spokesman for the club's Slovak owner has told the SITA news agency.