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Business

The future of elite triathlon racing in Australia has been secured with the sponsorship of this summer’s Triathlon series by Accenture, the international consultancy and technology firm’s first foray into Australian sporting sponsorship.
Business

Higher sanction fees received from its two European races has enabled Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) to post a seven percent increase in 3Q revenues compared to the same period last year.
Media

German media giant Kirch has sold its South American television rights to the 2002 and 2006 World Cups for just over $860m (B

Argentina's River Plate soccer club has decided it is too dangerous to play Wednesday's friendly in the United States against Mexico's Chivas de Guadalajara.
Business

The following are pen pictures of the five candidates seeking to take over from Juan Antonio Samaranch when he retires after 21 years as president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Monday.

The Football Association and the British Olympic Association are set for more discussions about entering a British football team in the Olympic Games.

France stayed ahead of Brazil atop of the FIFA world soccer rankings for a third straight month, while Germany climbed three places to fifth.

A new professional basketball league is being formed after the financial collapse of several teams in the International Basketball League.
Business

Canada said it would bid to host the next soccer World Cup to be played in the northern American hemisphere.
Business

Soccer tournament the Copa America finally kicks off in Colombia on Wednesday after weeks of furious argument over when and where it should be played but, as the action starts, ordinary fans may be asking what the fuss was about.
Sponsorship & Marketing

Sports rights marketing company Traffic has expressed dismay at poor ticket sales for the first two quarter-finals of the controversial Copa America.
Events

Latin American pay-TV sports network PSN is to broadcast more than 100 matches from two of the region’s soccer tournaments – the Copa Mercosur and the Copa Merconorte.
Business

South American Football Confederation (CSF) president Nicolas Leoz, whose organisation staged the Copa America at only six days' notice, says his dream is for every country in the Americas to take part in the future.
Sponsorship & Marketing

European sports information provider Infostrada Sports and North American equivalent STATS have formed a strategic content and technology sharing alliance.
Events

Fox Sports World Espanol, the Spanish-language US sports network, will broadcast coverage of this season’s Major League Soccer which runs throughout the summer.
Business

Television distributor Venevision International has been chosen by satellite broadcaster DirecTV to sub-license the rights to the 2002 soccer World Cup in a number of Latin American nations.
Business

Electronics giant Philips has become the fourteenth official partner of the 2002 World Cup soccer tournament in Korea and Japan.
Business

South America's top international soccer tournament, the Copa America, due to be held in Colombia next month, was put on hold until a kidnapped senior Colombian soccer official is freed, a Colombian spokesman said.