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The official website of Euro2000 has beaten the record currently listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most visited website in internet history.

FIFA's executive committee will discuss an overhaul of the system for selecting hosts for future World Cups at its meeting next month..

US motorsports promoter, the International Speedway Corporation (ISC), has reported financial results for the second quarter ended May 31, 2000.

The Television Corporation has acquired independent Venner TV Ltd (VTV), producers of Channel 4?s coverage in the UK of the Tour de France and a host of other sporting programmes.

The Euro 2000 website received more than a billion visits during the championships, making it one of the most popular sites ever, according to the company hosting the site.

Australian Rugby Union (ARU) officials are predicting a world record crowd of 109,000 for Saturday's Tri-nations rugby clash between Australia and New Zealand at Sydney's Olympic Stadium.

France's national soccer league (LNF) has elected a new chairman in a close contest fought out over the fate of income from lucrative television rights.

The British government will publish draft legislation today curbing the ease with which soccer hooligans travel abroad and cause the kind of mayhem witnessed at the Euro 2000 tournament.

Moroccan officials said they felt betrayed on Thursday after falling out in the first round of voting to stage the 2006 World Cup ? and then faced further humiliation when their support for South Africa failed to bring the tournament to the continent.

Soccer?s world club champions Corinthians of Brazil, are to play a pre-season friendly in Paris to be screened live across Latin America by the Pan American Sports network.

Italian media mogul, soccer club owner and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has sparked the resignation of the coach of the country?s soccer team.

Italy's Foreign Ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador to Italy on Monday to deplore the treatment of Italian journalists detained by police at Sunday's Euro 2000 soccer championships final in Rotterdam.

Austrian state broadcasting organisation Oesterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) reports that its TV coverage of the Euro 2000 semi final between France and Portugal attracted 1.13 million Austrian citizens while 1.369 million watched the match between Italy and the Netherlands. Women accounted for 30% of this figure.

German Football Federation (DFB) president Egidius Braun has been taken to hospital over the weekend, a DFB spokesman said.

The Tour de France chief has asserted that the credibility of the race is at stake this year and that organisers would act with the greatest severity against drugs offenders.

Euro 2000 organisers have warned soccer supporters that realistic fake tickets for Sunday's are in circulation.