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Britain's Lennox Lewis has been recognised as undisputed world heavyweight champion after the resolution of a cash row between his backers and the International Boxing Federation (IBF).
Media

Quokka Sports won three awards at the New Media INVISION 99 Festival. The INVISION Awards explore the future of content on the web and rewards those companies creating superior digital content.
Business

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is investigating BSkyB's acquisition of a 9.1% stake in Leeds Sporting, the public company which owns Premier League club Leeds United, according to The Sunday Telegraph.
Business

Total Sports Inc., a provider of online coverage of sporting events, has filed with regulators to raise as much as $57.5 million in an initial public offering.
Business

Visa International has agreed to renew its Olympic partnership as a TOP Worldwide Partner of the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City in 2002 and the Olympic Summer Games in Athens in 2004.
Stadia

Warsaw is ready to campaign for the 2016 Summer Olympics - more than seven years before the International Olympic Committee (IOC) starts considering official bids.
Events

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has confirmed that the Aussie government planned to apply its new 10 percent consumption tax to Sydney 2000 Olympics tickets sold at inflated prices to the wealthy.
Stadia

Sydney Olympic organisers are reportedly selling corporate boxes for at least $1 million each as they move to maximise revenue from prime seating to reduce the risk of a revenue shortfall from the Games, according to Australian industry reports.
Events

Irish state broadcaster RTE has accused a Turkish television company of excessive demands for the rights to broadcast next week's Euro 2000 play-off.
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The Australian government has called on the International Olympic Committee to help fund a international research programme to find a test for 'undetectable' drugs such as EPO before next year's Sydney Olympics.
Business

Brazil's soccer tour of Australia has became a financial disaster as superstar Ronaldo withdrew and the promoter took the extraordinary step of declaring free admission.

South Korea's top football representative has said he would like to see North and South Korea field a united team for the 2002 World Cup.
Business

365 Corporation, the UK-based sports internet company, has published its prospectus for flotation, valuing the group at up to #273m.
Business

NASCAR has reached television deals with NBC, Turner Sports and Fox television networks beginning in the 2001 season.
Stadia

The new Seattle Mariners baseball stadium has too many things wrong with it for the team to pay its final construction bill, a Mariners spokeswoman has said.
Events

The first live webcast of an international football match will take place tomorrow for the European Championship play-off between Scotland and England.

Nissan Motor Co, heavily in debt and recently embarked on a drastic restructuring plan, has said it would not compete in the Le Mans 24 hour endurance race in 2000.
Business

Russia's soccer chiefs have sacked Sergei Khusainov, the embattled head of the country's referees' association (RA), but denied the dismissal was linked to allegations of drunkenness.

Shamil Tarpishchev, one of the most powerful sports figures in Russia, has been elected president of the Russian Tennis Federation (RTF) for a four-year term.

Europe's leading advisers on ethics have called for tighter laws to crack down on doping in sport and said profits from sport should be ploughed back into the fight against drugs.