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IOC president Jacques Rogge has indicated that, due to the standard of the bids, it is a possibility that none of the cities campaigning to host the 2012 Olympics will be eliminated from the final ballot to be made in 2005.

Live coverage of MotoGP races in 2003 has increased by an average of 138 million – according to rights holders Dorna.

The Montreal Expos are set to confirm in the coming weeks they will move 22 games to Puerto Rico.

The Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix will go ahead as planned next year after a reversal of a court injunction against it.

The International Olympic Committee has made it clear that countries failing to make payments to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) or adopt its drug-ban code could be barred from seeking to host the Olympic Games.

A judge has issued an injunction that threatens to force the Brazilian Grand Prix off the Formula One calendar.

The NBA's growing international presence has again been proven after the league signed a raft of TV rights deals across the globe.

Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig is continuing to refuse to suspend the league to allow players to compete in the Olympic Games – despite the US’ humiliating defeat in a qualifying game for Athens 2004.

A row in Peru over player payments took a new twist at the weekend after striking soccer stars took control of a stadium and forced a game to be called off.

UK commercial network ITV has reported an audience of more than 70 million viewers for its coverage of the opening rounds of the Rugby World Cup from Australia.

We warned you yesterday – and now its official – FIFA’s Club World Championship is set for a return, with the US a possible to host its rebirth.

Building on the platform of this year's Rugby World Cup, Japan is lobbying to be included in the Southern Hemisphere's Super 12 series from 2006.

UK agency the GEM Group has won the account handling contract for energy supplier BG Group's yacht sponsorship in the fourth Global Challenge race.

UK commercial free-to-air broadcaster ITV has claimed that its line-up of sports content over the last weekend pulled in over 26 million viewers to the network.

Host broadcaster the Seven Network broke the record for the number of viewers for a rugby union game in the country with its coverage of Australia's opening game of the Rugby World Cup against Argentina.

UK pay-TV network Sky Sports has acquired the exclusive live rights to this Sunday's soccer game between Brazil and Jamaica - to be played at the Walkers Bowl stadium in Leicester.