Russia

UK terrestrial broadcaster the BBC has bought up the television rights to Ipswich Town?s upcoming UEFA Cup home tie against Torpedo Moscow.

The Bulgarian arm of Russian oil firm LUKOIL is in talks to buy a majority stake in Bulgarian soccer club Neftochimik Bourgas, Neftochimik's president said on Tuesday.

The president of Russian premier division soccer side Fakel Voronezh has resigned following the death of a woman during the half-time interval of a 5-0 defeat by Spartak Moscow last weekend, club officials have confirmed.

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.

Juan Antonio Samaranch has left the intensive care unit of the Swiss hospital he has been in for a week after suffering from chronic fatigue.

The German Grand Prix will be held at the Hockenheimring for another seven years after an agreement to extend the contract was reached between Formula One Holding and the Hockenheimring GmbH.

Ninety percent of the population of Beijing tuned into the broadcast of the Olympic vote on the host city for the 2008 Games which saw the Chinese capital emerge victorious.

Former IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch has been taken to hospital in Lausanne suffering from "extreme tiredness", the International Olympic Committee has confirmed to sportbusiness.com.

Newly-elected International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge has renewed his call to defeated rival Dick Pound to stay on as both the Games' marketing chief and a key figure in the fight against doping.

Outgoing president Juan Antonio Samaranch pulled strings for Belgian Jacques Rogge to win Monday's IOC presidential election, a losing South Korean candidate has claimed.

Leading IOC member Jacques Rogge is poised to take over the most powerful job in world sport as IOC president in July, according to the results of a new survey.

Osaka is not ready to throw in the towel in the race to stage the 2008 summer Olympic Games, bid officials have said.

Orange Arrows owner Tom Walkinshaw has recruited Hermann Tilke, the architect of Malaysia?s #110m ($156m) Sepang circuit, to design the projected new grand prix track in Moscow.

A US government official has stated that President George Bush will not block Bejing?s bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games, despite the current political unrest between the US and China.

A favourable review of Beijing's 2008 Games bid by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) showed human rights protestors and US critics were out of step with world opinion, a Beijing official said on Sunday.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has dismissed suggestions it could be accused of nepotism in putting forward the son of president Juan Antonio Samaranch for election to the organisation in July.