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Australia has put forward Perth as its choice to host the IAAF?s 2005 World Championship. Perth, like bidding rivals London, does not yet have a suitable venue. But, while London has the promise of government backing, the Perth challenge has no such guarantees.
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The UK government has rejected a report calling for greater restrictions on the sponsorship of sport by alcohol companies, fearing that it could cause financial problems for teams and events and prove unpopular with the fans.
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South African World Cup 2006 bid officials are planning a charm offensive in Europe later this month, trying to convince European members of the FIFA executive committee of the merits of their candidacy.
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ESPN and ABC Sports will merge their advertising sales staffs and have named Edward R. Erhardt, most recently vice president and group publisher of Advertising Age magazine to lead the combined entity.
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The French government has agreed on a bill to tax revenues from broadcasting rights and use the proceeds to help sport at local and youth level.
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Sky Sports has said it will allow the crunch England v Scotland Euro 200 soccer play-off second-leg to be shown live on terrestrial television, despite holding exclusive broadcast rights.
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An Australian member of the International Olympic Committee severely reprimanded for taking free holidays in Salt Lake City has backed a possible permanent ban on IOC visits to cities bidding to host Games.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard has confirmed that the Aussie government planned to apply its new 10 percent consumption tax to Sydney 2000 Olympics tickets sold at inflated prices to the wealthy.
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Sports TV company Sportsworld Media has struck a #22.4 million deal to buy Australian Media Holdings, the TV and sports sponsorship group.
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IOC chief Juan Antonio Samaranch has stepped into the row over the future of London's Wembley Stadium when he said that an arena holding 65,000 spectators would be big enough to host the Summer Games.
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Former UK Sports Minister Tony Banks will give evidence to an inquiry into the fiasco surrounding the new #475million national stadium at Wembley.
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International media magnate Rupert Murdoch has agreed to sell the German television rights to European Champions' League soccer for the next three seasons, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper has reported..
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NFL owners have unanimously approved the sale of the New York Jets to Robert Wood Johnson IV.
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A monitor appointed by a federal judge 12 days ago to take the helm of the International Boxing Federation has resigned and a replacement named.
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Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour has this week began studying a long-awaited report from South African soccer officials seeking to unearth what's behind recent infighting within the national game.
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Total spectator attendance at the Nagano Winter Olympic sports events was 1,275,929, according to figures issued by the International Olympic Committee. A further 167,200 attended victory ceremonies.
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Hungary hopes to score a first on the Internet by broadcasting a soccer game live on the web later this month, a local sports newspaper reported.
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STAR Sports new pay channel service delivered record viewing figures for the Sharjah Cricket final, between India and Australia, broadcast on April 24th.