Nordics
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Swedish Minister of Sports, Lars Enqvist, has made an energetic start at his new role. Along with Olof Stenhammar, former campaign-leader for Stockholm's 2004 bid for the Summer Olympics, Engqvist has presented a plan to make Sweden an Olympic force.
Events

Terrestrial Swedish television company SVT, are claiming damages of 500 000 Swedish Krona ($66,000) from ISPR.
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The Swedish Railway company (SJ) has cancelled all its sport sponsorship in Sweden.
Business

Norway?s bid to stage this year?s ice hockey world championships could be scuppered by a new anti-alcohol sponsorship law.

Canal Plus Scandinavia could go to the European Union to settle a dispute with the Swedish FA.
Business

Norway, in a rare departure from its increasingly stringent restrictions on alcohol advertising, has approved a "limited" exemption for the 1999 World Ice Hockey Championships.

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No more international club soccer matches will be held in Stockholm because of the high police costs of manning them, Swedish Football Association president Lars-Ake Lagrell said.
Business

Olympic leaders said on Friday they would be holding immediate talks on whether Salt Lake City broke Olympic rules in its campaign to win the race to stage the 2002 Winter Games.

Business

The Olympic organising committee in Quebec City was courted by "special agents" who offered to "buy" votes on the International Olympic Committee to help the city's bid to host the 2002 Winter Olympics to succeed, Le Soleil newspaper has reported.
Business

Swedish league champions AIK Stockholm have recruited UEFA president Lennart Johansson to lead the club in the run-up to a possible stock market listing, AIK chairman Sune Hellstromer has revealed.

European nations might not participate in a biennial World Cup due to pressure from clubs, says UEFA president Lennart Johansson.

Business

The bidding process by cities hoping to host the Olympic games has been open to abuse for years and needs a radical revamp, the mayor of Cape Town, which failed to win the 2004 Games, has said.
Media

Olympics boss Juan Antonio Samaranch has launched a scathing attack against media critics who have called for him to quit over the Salt Lake City corruption scandal.

Events

SportsLine, the US internet sports information service, which runs web-site such as CBS SportsLine, soccernet and Golfweb, is to develop a $50milion European subsidiary in partnership with Intel, MediaOne and Reuters.
Business

European athletics chiefs have agreed to stage a new indoor European Cup in 2001, an athletics source said recently.
Business

Pangolin, the independent sports media company,has bought the the popular Scandinavian multi-sport siteSportNow (www.SportNow.se).

Russia may file an official complaint against a Swedish company that supplied radioactive sand for a court being laid for a Davis Cup quarter-final.

A three-year agreement between the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and the NHL over compensation payments for players leaving IIHF-federations to find their fortune in the big money US league, is on the verge of being ratified.