Events

IEC in Sports has acquired all international television rights to the JVC Ladies Open in Vienna next month.

Worldwide Entertainment & Sports Corp?s internet subsidiary, Worldwide Houseofboxing.com (HOB), has signed a letter of intent with TelVue Corporation to offer HOB users who are cable television and Direct Broadcast satellite subscribers

Internet Pictures Corporation (iPIX), Hyro.com, and the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) have signed a deal to allow the use of iPIX Virtual Tours on the official Olympics web site.

Heavyweight Mike Tyson will return to the United States after two fights this year in Britain to face Poland's Andrew Golota on October 20, the promoters have confirmed.

Thailand has said it would pursue its dream of hosting the Olympics despite rejection of its bid for the 2008 Summer Games.

InMotion Technologies is to create a website for the TISSOT-UCI Mountain Bike 2000 World Cup Finals in Leysin and Lausanne.

The hosts of the 2004 African Nations Cup will be announced in Cairo on Monday, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has said.

The future of Formula One's Grand Prix weekends will be discussed at a meeting of team chiefs and the sport's leading powerbrokers today.

Several MLS soccer teams are planning new stadium builds following the success of The Columbus Crew stadium ? with Los Angeles Galaxy involved in the most ambitious project.

FoxSports.com will stream live video and audio of the University of Nebraska's college football game against San Jose State University - the first Division I college football game broadcast online by a major sports site.

Huge time-zone differences and an explosion in computer use will make Sydney's Olympics the biggest event yet on the Internet with officials predicting a staggering 6.5 billion hits for the official Games site alone.

Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) has launched a new marketing and communications structure intended to channel open-wheel racing more efficiently to its key markets.

Hyundai Motor America has made its first foray into professional golf sponsorship by signing as title sponsors of Hyundai Team Matches, formerly known as the Diners Club Matches.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has staunchly defended politicians accepting free tickets and corporate hospitality at next month's Sydney Olympics.

The race to host the Olympic Games in 2008 has now begun in earnest following the announcement of the shortlist by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Pennsylvania's ski and year-round resort, Seven Springs Mountain Resort, is to host the first edition of the Ford 24-hour Champion Challenge mountain bike competition.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said that Greece must run a marathon at sprinting speed to make up for delays in organising the 2004 Games in Athens.

NBC will offer more Olympic programming than ever before with the help of its cable-TV outlets CNBC and MSNBC.