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South Korea plans this week to discuss cultural and sports exchanges with North Korea - including sharing of some 2002 World Cup soccer matches.
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IOC delegates have heaped praise on Toronto's plans to stage the 2008 Olympics, saying they were impressed with the city's athlete-oriented focus and dismissed detractors who sought to cast a pall on Toronto's squeaky-clean reputation.
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Two of Europe?s broadcast giants are in talks to merge their sports operations, according to paytvtoday.com.
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The Sportsmasters Network has announced that they are no longer intending to proceed with their plans for a breakaway world tour later this year.
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Australia?s Brisbane City Council officially approved the $A280m (US$143m) upgrade for Lang Park stadium on Wednesday.
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While Beijing sprayed its grass green to impress Olympic Games inspectors, Toronto is about to greet the officials with a thick blanket of new snow as it makes its pitch to host the 2008 Summer Games.
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Germany's Kirch Group and public broadcasters ARD and ZDF have reached a television rights agreement for the next two World Cups after Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder asked them to work out a deal.
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The Cheltenham Festival next week has been threatened by a suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease at the Lambourn stables 70 kilometres from the course.
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Irish soccer fixtures have been wiped out for a second successive weekend because of Britain's foot-and-mouth crisis, football authorities said on Tuesday.
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Sporting events across Europe are under threat as fears about the foot-and-mouth outbreak in Britain spread to the continent.
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England Premiership soccer club Leeds United has launched LUTV, a behind the scenes insight into the club through their official website.
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The Melbourne Cup, Australia's most famous horse race, will carry a purse of US$2.12 million this year, the Victoria Racing Club (VRC) has said.
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The Houston-based sport-marketing agency Global Productions has been selected as sponsorship agency for the Texaco Havoline Grand Prix of Houston for 2001.
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A small Utah software company is keen to find a distributor, while a biomedical firm needs a partner and both hope they can meet with international companies at next year's Winter Olympics.
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Car makers may set up their own motor racing championship if talks with German media group Kirch, which owns 75 percent of Formula One broadcast rights' company SLEC, do not lead to a deal, German media reported.
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The relationship between Channel Seven and the Australian Football League appears to have turned nasty with the Seven Network signing a major sponsorship deal with brewery Lion Nathan.
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British Eurosport has secured live rights to this year?s CART FedEx Championship Series.
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ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has signed multi-year agreements for Asian broadcast rights to Formula One motor racing and the leading tennis Grand Slams ? the US Open and Wimbledon.