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Telecom Italia shifted its publicity drive for a planned merger with Deutsche Telekom into top gear with advertisements featuring German racing driver Michael Schumacher.

Ford has announced its purchase of the Stewart Formula One Grand Prix team.

Australia's greatest ever Olympian, swimmer Dawn Fraser, has warned the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of a possible athletes' protest at next year's Sydney Olympics if the organisation refused to reform itself properly.

The North American Broadcasters Association has announced it is to team up with the Sportel Organisation to stage panels at Sportel in Monaco this year and Sportelamerica 2000 in Miami Beach.

Sports lawyers have been the only people to profit this week in a bleak few days for track and field.

Sports lawyers have been the only people to profit this week in a bleak few days for track and field.

International television rights company CSI Ltd has recently acquired the exclusive television rights for home matches of the English football clubs in the UEFA Cup and the European Pro Beach Soccer League.

Octagon CSI, the television division of the Octagon Group, will unveil a number of new football programming opportunities at this year?s Sportel in Monaco.

English soccer club Chelsea is in talks with Italian club Lazio about setting up a rival to the G14 group of top European clubs.

Joan Gaspart, president of Spanish soccer side Barcelona, has today vetoed efforts by the G-14 group of top European soccer clubs to expand the group?s club representation.

European soccer?s governing body, UEFA, has relaunched its website ? which will spearhead its new media division.

The G-14 group of top European soccer clubs meets in Monaco today to decide on how it will transform itself from a lobby group into a legitimate force that can shape the future of the game at the highest level.

World record-breaking pole vaulter Sergei Bubka is set to clear another new height this week in his rapid rise up the ranks of world sport's administration.

McLaren technical director Adrian Newey is poised to join Formula One rivals Jaguar, according to reports.

A rival series to Formula One is unlikely to happen although leading car makers have the resources and cannot be underestimated, International Automobile Federation (FIA) president Max Mosley said on Saturday.

A meeting of the G14 group of top European soccer clubs has failed to agree criteria for the admission of new clubs, reports sportbusiness.com soccer writer Simon Banks from Milan.

Media Content and the Sportel Organisation, owner and organiser of the popular sports broadcasting events in Monaco and Miami are launching an online marketplace.

South Korean Kim Un-yong has joined the race for world sport's most powerful job -- the International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidency.