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The National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England, has been selected as the venue for the Davis Cup Euro/African Zone 1 second round tie between Great Britain and Portugal on 6-8 April.
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Dynamo Tbilisi, the former top Soviet side now mired in debt and facing possible extinction, has been put in the hands of Georgia's Interior Ministry.

French League president Gerard Bourgoin promised that tough action would be taken in the wake of the false passports scandal that has rocked the sport -- and that teams will be docked points if found guilty.
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The French National Soccer League (LNF) has suspended St Etienne players Alex of Brazil and Maxim Levytsky from Ukraine pending an investigation into their passports.
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Manchester United, the world?s best supported club team, will be playing for big bucks in Wednesday?s Uefa Champions? League.

Holders Real Madrid will find out their first opponents in the 2000/2001 Champions League on

Hrigory Surkis, the powerful boss of champions Dynamo Kiev, has been elected president of the Ukrainian Football Federation (UFF).

Last season's Ukrainian league runners up Shakhtar Donetsk criticised rivals Dynamo Kiev for attempting to seize too much power in Ukrainian soccer.
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President of the Ukrainian Football Federation (UFF) Valery Pustovoitenko will not seek re-election when his term expires next week.

Italian sport swear company, Lotto Sport Italia, has signed up AC Milan and Ukraine striker Andriy Shevchenko on a three-year deal..

Russia's individual Olympic gold medal-winners at the Sydney Games in September can expect a $100,000 bonus, the country's leading sports official have said.
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NHL International, in conjunction with ESPN International, will distribute the 2000 NHL

Ukrainian first division side Torpedo Zaporizhya have withdrawn from the countries domestic cup competition after filing for bankruptcy.

Welsh soccer chiefs may call in soccer’s world governing body FIFA over a row with Ukrainian embassy officials who have refused to grant striker John Hartson a visa ahead of next Wednesday's World Cup qualifier in the former Soviet Union.