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Victoria has won the right to host the 6th World Cup Polo Championships 2001 at The National Equestrian Centre at Werribee Park, from 28 March to 8 April 2001.

Following a flat year on the business side of the US motorsports industry, H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler, president and chief operating officer of Speedway Motorsports, Inc, has said that the growth experienced by the industry, and NASCAR Winston Cup racing in particular, during the 1990s will resume in 2001.

Shares in English premier league soccer club Tottenham Hotspur Plc have surged after weekend newspapers reported that the club's chairman, Alan Sugar, would sell his stake.

Spain's Paralympic basketball team will hand back gold medals won at the Sydney Games after 10 of their players were found to have no disability, officials have said.

Broadcast sponsorship of Eurosport?s coverage of the Olympic Games was a huge success, according to a survey of European television viewers.

Leading global football exhibition, Football Expo 2001, has signed a number of speakers for its event in January.

The European Triathlon Union (ETU) says it is prepared to take legal action to recover the debts owed by the eight national triathlon federations, which last week announced the unsanctioned formation of the breakaway Triathlon Council for Europe.

Outgoing Sydney Olympics minister Michael Knight has confirmed that New South Wales (NSW) taxpayers would receive a $30 million (US$16.2 million) rebate from an additional $140 million raised shortly before the Games.

Representatives of around 70 leading European rugby clubs met in Lyon yesterday to create a new organisation to promote their interests.

UEFA chief executive Gerhard Aigner says that the Champions League needs to be reformed to prevent fans losing interest in the tournament, according to a report in a British newspaper.

The director of the Sydney-Hobart yacht race has stepped down after an adverse finding by a coroner into the storm-swept 1998 race in which six people died.

Soccer-related sponsorship and merchandising revenues could generate up to $500m in Asia over the next five years, according to a Singapore-based sports marketing executive.

Twelve major clubs from six of Europe's smaller nations have met with UEFA, to voice their concerns about the growing gap between soccer's rich and poor and discuss proposals for a new "Euro League".

The 2003 world badminton championships will be staged in Birmingham, English officials said after outbidding China, Hong Kong and the Netherlands.

Eleven clubs from five of Europe's smaller nations attacked the growing gap between soccer's rich and poor on the continent and said they would unveil concrete proposals for a "Euroleague" early next year.

European champions Real Madrid were voted the FIFA team of the 20th century on Monday.

English cricket?s governing body, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), is now confident it will find sponsors to back a raft of cricketing properties following England?s dramatic Test series win over Pakistan.

London News Network's sports division, ISN, and Carlton 021 have signed a multi-million pound production deal for OnDigital?s Football league contract.