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UK photo agency Action Images has reported a 47 per cent increase in sports assignments for 2000.

A proposed ban on cigarette advertisements in Hungary has shocked tobacco producers and could jeopardise Formula One races in the country.

Japan has no plans to launch a new investigation into allegations the central Japanese city of Nagano bribed International Olympic Committee (IOC) executives to host the 1998 Winter Games.

Fifteen major international events will be staged in Western Australia in 2001.

The Florida Marlins and local politicians have finalised a plan to fund and build a $385-million, retractable-roof ballpark to keep the Major League baseball team in south Florida, officials said Sunday.

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.

The Salt Lake City bribery scandal is likely to haunt the next president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in his first year in charge, according to prospective candidate Jacques Rogge.

Real Sociedad president Luis Uranga and his board of directors have decided to resign because of the club's poor performance over the last two seasons.

Athens Olympics organisers (ATHOC) are forecasting revenues from TV rights for the 2004 Games will rise 16.5 percent from the Sydney figure to $800 million.

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

The Australian National Rugby League (NRL) has signed a six-year deal worth $400million (US$216 million) with Australia's biggest pay television company Foxtel.

ESPN.com will offer sports fans the opportunity to interact with an audio broadcast of a sports event when it provides exclusive audio for the Jimmy V Classic next Tuesday featuring Tennessee vs. Virginia and Seton Hall vs. Michigan State.

Lucent Technologies has signed a long-term agreement as Title Sponsor of the Tour de las Americas, the Latin American PGA golf tour.

September's Sydney Olympics should be a financial success after being praised worldwide as the greatest Games in history, Olympic leaders said on Tuesday.

The Ladies European Tour (LET) has adopted a more global approach in a bid to increase the playing and earning opportunities for its growing membership.

It may be more than seven months before world sport's most prestigious job is decided but campaigning was already hotting up at the International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s headquarters in Lausanne.