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World soccer's governing body FIFA has told the Greek FA (EPO) it is concerned about the state of the Greek game and is sending an investigation team, EPO said on Friday.

America's 2004 Olympic athletics team will be chosen at the same site that hosted the 2000 Sydney Games trials, USA Track & Field officials have said.

The IOC has told organisers of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens to speed up their efforts.

Greek hoteliers are lining up to get on the Athens bourse to take advantage of investment opportunities ahead of the 2004 Olympic Games.

Olympic leader Jacques Rogge has called on the Greek government to start delivering the venues needed for the 2004 Games in Athens. For the full story see the FEATURES section of sportbusiness.com.

Even the most experienced Olympic observers cannot agree on which city will win the battle to stage the 2008 Summer Games as the deciding vote draws near.

The e-commerce streaming company, e-Media, Inc, has teamed up with VideoSport.com to deliver live, pay-per-view (PPV) webcasts of more than 150 professional European soccer matches over the next two years to fans worldwide.

An International Olympic Committee (IOC) inspection team for the Athens 2004 Games will take a hard look at security when they visit Greece later this week.

Athens 2004 Olympic Games organisers said they had secured two key sponsors - a bank that will pay more than any one previous local sponsor and a brewer that has tripled what its Australian counterpart paid.

Athens Olympics organisers said they were considering building a permanent 14,000-seat stadium at the site of the Athens airport to stage the qualifying rounds of the Olympic basketball tournament.

U.S. network NBC has denied that it was trying to exert pressure to put back the times of events at the 2004 Athens Olympics because of prime time television at home.

British Olympic chiefs will meet government ministers today to decide whether London can launch a bid to bring the Olympic Games back to Britain for the first time since 1948.

Greece has launched its Olympic volunteer programme, appealing for 60,000 people to help make the troubled 2004 Athens Games a success.

The possibility of entering British men's and women's soccer teams in the 2004 Athens Olympics has been the subject of high-level talks between British Olympic chiefs and the English FA.

Sports marketing firm Millsport has hired Bruce Angus as vice president, Millsport International.

Greece's finance ministry and the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Organising Committee (ATHOC) have signed a memorandum of cooperation and understanding designed to streamline procedures ahead of the Games.