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A top Japanese Olympics official has said there were "excesses" in Nagano's winning bid for the 1998 Winter Games but that a probe was being hampered because Olympic documents had been destroyed.

A U.S. insurance giant and major Olympic sponsor has said the committee responsible for Sydney's successful bid for the 2000 Games appeared to have been involved in bribery.

An investigation into the Salt Lake City bribery scandal headed by former Sen. George Mitchell is not expected to uncover any major revelations, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee has said.

Among the diverse voices at this week's Interactive Sports West 1999 Conference in Los Angeles Mark Cuban's stood out.

Morocco's King Hassan has named former minister Driss Benhima as head of the National World Cup Committee (NWCC) to lobby for hosting the world soccer finals in Morocco in 2006.

Titan Sports (The WWF), has signed a merchandising sponsorship agreement with Zali Racing for 1999 and 2000 Indy Racing League and NASCAR Races.

Jean-Claude Ganga, one of six International Olympic Committee members expelled from the organisation in March for taking bribes, is to resign as president of the African Olympic body, a South African Olympic official has confirmed.

Sydney's 2000 Games chief Michael Knight raised the hackles of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday, lecturing its members on the need for reform just two days after cutting millions of dollars in IOC perks from the Sydney budget.

The English Football Association has offered leading club Manchester United an unprecedented opportunity to ease its fixture schedule - in a move aimed at enhancing the countries claims to hosting the 2006 World Cup.

A vice-president of world soccer governing body FIFA has blasted the decision to delay the vote on who will win the battle to host the 2006 World Cup.

The Pepsi-Cola Company will be an official beverage sponsor of the All-American Soccer Stars Victory (AASS) Tour.

The Restrictive Practices Court in London is to make a landmark court ruling today on the way in which television rights to English Premier League games are sold.

The 20th Southeast Asian games begin on Saturday with attention focused as much on the tiny sultanate of Brunei as the actual competition itself.

South African soccer officials, confident of the quality of their bid, have revealed why they think they should host the 2006 World Cup.

ISL Television is to exclusively represent the international broadcast rights to the five key domestic Brazilian football competitions under an agreement with the domestic rights-holders for Brazilian football: Clube dos Treze and Rede Globo.

Athletics action at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane has failed to live up to the ratings success of swimming, ranking only as the sixteenth most watched programme on local television on Tuesday night.

The Canadian Football League (CFL) has signed a deal with Houston-based broadcast firm USFR Media Group to show match coverage throughout the US on the America One Television Network.

Guenther Struwe, programme director of German public broadcaster ARD, has predicted that the network will be taking advertising in primetime schedules for its major sports events within the next four to five years.