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About 100 Olympic family members who overstayed their visas and remained illegally in Australia following the Sydney Games have ignored Immigration Department warnings to get out, a spokesman has said.

Cuban American players and coaches on at least four Major League Baseball teams benched themselves on Tuesday to honour a strike in Miami protesting the federal raid that reunited Elian Gonzalez with his father.

The Fox network has signed a major multi-million dollar deal to begin broadcasting Dominican Republic baseball games.

Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has denied that the Olympic Games will change to a two-year cycle.

NHL International, in conjunction with ESPN International, will distribute the 2000 NHL

FOX Sports World and FOX Sports World Espanol have signed an exclusive sponsorship agreement with the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO), making the Networks the Official Sports Television Networks of the AYSO.

Major League Baseball is in negotiations to start its 2001 season in Puerto Rico.

Juan Margets has been re-elected as ITF executive vice-president during its annual general meeting in Mexico.

In Argentina the privatisation of Racing soccer club was confirmed yesterday by the Camera de Apelaciones, the court of appeal in La Plata.

Tennis tournaments in the US and Brazil will continue this week despite Tuesday's terror attacks in New York and Washington.

Mexican footballers want to create a players' union to defend their rights.

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Brazilian rights marketing company Traffic, who lobbied furiously to get the troubled Copa America in Colombia reinstated, are now demanding that Argentina are fined and excluded from the next tournament, to be held in Peru in 2003.

Beijing combined evocative images of ancient and modern China in its final bid for the 2008 Olympics on Friday just hours before the International Olympics Committee (IOC) votes on the host.

International sports leaders like to pretend to others, if not themselves, that sport is blissfully removed from politics.

The following profiles show the strengths and weaknesses of the five candidates seeking to take over from Juan Antonio Samaranch when he retires after 21 years in charge of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in July.