Events

The race to secure the terrestrial and interactive media to rights to UK horse racing is close to being won by Go Racing, the consortium made up of Channel 4, BSkyB and Arena Leisure.

The International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) has threatened to withdraw the 2005 World Championships from London over doubts concerning the proposed #95million stadium at Picketts Lock.

Canada ?based Rogers Communications Inc. has taken its fight to gain control of Sportsnet, an all-sports specialty television channel, to the federal broadcast regulator.

Stockholm?s Olympic Stadium will host its first speedway meeting for nearly thirty years when the Speedway Grand Prix hits the Swedish capital on Saturday 29 September 2001.

All finalists at both world outdoor and indoor athletics championships will receive prize money from next year.

European internet TV company Kamera, has recruited Andrew Kaza as a new member of the board.

New Zealand said it will continue a ban on sporting contacts with Fiji until the troubled island makes enough progress towards restoring a constitutional and democratic government to warrant a change.

Fast Track, the sports consultancy founded by Alan Pascoe, has won its first major international consultancy contract.

Cricket chiefs of three Asian nations have sought a meeting with the Indian government to request reversing its decision to cancel a tour of Pakistan.

CSS Stellar, the British-owned sports and entertainment management group, has issued a prospectus for its forthcoming flotation on the Alternative Investment Market.

World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc is hoping the success of its WWF.com site will be replicated by XFL.com.

A meeting of owners, trainers, stable lads, transporters and breeders' representatives in London has insisted that money from horse-racing?s imminent broadcast deal should be split up according to the 40-40-20 funding formula agreed by the British Horseracing Board (BHB) last month.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has approved Greece's security strategy for the 2004 Games but asked for a detailed operations plan to be drawn up as soon as possible, officials said on Thursday.

The European Commission has withdrawn a threat to fine Spain's Telefonica and Sogecable over rights to broadcast Spanish soccer matches on pay-television.

ESPN International is to broadcast live coverage of all four rounds of the 2000 World Golf Championship ? EMC World Cup.

Vertical Alliance, the US-based e-business customer management company, has completed the integration of 18 International Speedway Corporation (ISC)-owned web site communities into one integrated customer management solution.