Russia

New Yorkers have backed the bid to win the 2012 Olympics – but not if the event ends up being financed by their taxes.

Franklin Sports Business (FSB) - the sport and leisure arm of Franklin + Andrews, one of the UK's leading cost consultancies - has been appointed as cost consultant on London's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games.

Former Olympic gold medal winner Lord Coe has become president and chairman of the London bid for the 2012 Olympic Games.

The IOC’s Michael Payne has told sports federations they need to ‘PR their sports’ to become friendly to the widest possible TV audience.

The IOC has named the five cities to compete to host the 2012 Olympic Games.

The IOC will confirm tomorrow the cities going through to battle it out in the race to host the 2012 Olympic Games.

The team behind New York’s bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games has unveiled its new logo.

Russian soccer club Saturn Ramenskove has signed a massive multi-million dollar, multi-year deal with an oil trading company.

Russian businessmen looking to takeover Italian Serie A club AS Roma have suspended negotiations at the last minute amid a major probe by Italian officials into allegations of false accounting across the top professional clubs in the country.

A major marketing workshop to enhance ticket sales for European basketball’s Euroleague concludes today – with participating teams saying the effort is paying off.

All nine cities bidding to host the 2012 Olympic Games have returned their questionnaires to the IOC, setting the scene for what is set to become one of the most hotly contested battles in recent history.

Formal details of the bids by the nine cities hoping to stage the 2012 Olympic Games have started arriving at the IOC’s offices, ahead of tomorrow’s deadline.

According to a new survey nearly 90 percent of all Russians are in favour of Moscow hosting the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.

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.

The host cities for two of athletics' most prestigiuous events have been decided with Moscow set to stage the 2006 World Indoor Championships and Fukuoka in Japan hosting the World Cross-Country Championships in the same year.

Paris has unveiled its budget for its bid to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.