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Bid deadline for 2005 Games
Today is the last day for contenders to formally indicate their intention to host the 2005 World Athletics Championships. The International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) is expected to receive bids from six cities.
Platini en route for UEFA top job
Platini, who had a glittering playing career leading France to victory in the 1984 European Championships and also later managed the side, is hoping to gain a seat on both bodies during elections at the UEFA Congress in Stockholm on April 25.
Rome bids for athletics
Rome has made a formal bid to host the World Athletics Championships in 2005, the third-biggest sporting event in the world, Italy's Athletics Federation FIDAL has confirmed.
Moscow confident of hosting 2005 Championships
Moscow's bid to host the 2005 World Athletics Championships has an excellent chance of success, the head of Russian athletics said.
Eight cities to bid for IAAF showcase
The IAAF has received interest from eight cities to host the 2005 World Championships following the withdrawal of London at the end of last year.
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Eight cities have shown an interest in staging the World Championships competition in 2005 after it was controversially taken away from the UK after the Picketts Lock debacle.
Finnish sport faces crisis
Sport in Finland is in crisis with a number of leading clubs set to go bust.
Scotland considers joint Euro 2008 bid
Scotland is considering a joint bid with the Republic of Ireland to host football's 2008 European Championships according to UK newspaper reports.
Kirch blurs the World Cup picture
With time running out until the opening game of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, many broadcasters are playing a waiting game over TV rights. Tim Wallace explains why
Finns get webbed up
Finnish sports marketing agency Makra has organised the first ever webcast soccer match in Finland.
Nordic countries confirm Euro 2008 bid
The Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have confirmed their intention to bid for the right to host the 2008 European Championships.
Nordic 2008 bid reveals venues
The four-country Nordic bid for the 2008 European football championships has announced the venues it is proposing to host the tournament.
Tele-Cine builds for GoBarkingMad racing channel
Tele-Cine, the builders of secure TV and internet production facilities, has signed a long-term contract to provide transmission services for the digital TV channel gobarkingmad - a live, 24-hour greyhound racing channel where punters can see a race every five to eight minutes.
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UK satellite broadcaster Sky Sports is to use split-screen technology for its pay-per-view coverage of the final soccer World Cup qualifying matches in England's group.
U>direct abandons PPV Intertoto cup match
The image of pay-per-view (PPV) sports television was tarnished today just weeks before the English Premier League launches its PPV soccer matches after PPV film and sport service u>direct abandoned its plans to broadcast tomorrow’s Intertoto Cup semi-final between Newcastle United and Munich 1860.
Chirac: ‘Paris games would be problem-free’
French President Jacques Chirac, promoting the Paris bid to stage the 2008 Olympic Games, has told Russian Olympic officials that the organisation of the Games would be problem-free if they were held in the French capital.
U>Direct TV closes down
UK-based pay-per-view (PPV) film and sports service u>direct TV has gone into voluntary liquidation, sportbusiness.com can confirm. Roger Hall, the company’s chief operating officer told us this morning that the company had failed to attain financial profitability and was therefore forced to shut down its operations.
EC HIT BACK AT COLLECTIVE RIGHTS EXEMPTION TALK
The European Commission has sought to dismiss any idea the EU might give a blanket exemption to the collective selling of sports broadcasting rights, a practice seen as an illegal cartel.