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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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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.
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Formula One's five European car makers said on Tuesday they opposed any moves that would lead to one television company controlling the commercial rights to races.
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Asian sports broadcaster ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) has acquired the exclusive terrestrial, cable and satellite television broadcast rights of the English Premier League for the next three seasons beginning August 2001.
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China urged International Olympic Committee (IOC) delegates arriving on Monday to assess Beijing's bid for the 2008 Games to focus on its credentials as a "sports superpower of 1.2 billion people", not its human rights record.
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The AFL has had a much-needed sponsorship boost as the league and naming-rights backer Coca-Cola denied their relationship would end prematurely.
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World heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis' U.S. promoter has denied a report that Johannesburg had been selected to host the fighter's next defence in April.
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The Williams tennis sisters Venus and Serena have won their cases to evict cyber-squatters from contested domain names, arbitrators have ruled.
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HBO.com is to launch a live interactive adjunct to HBO Sports' new 12-week talk/magazine show, On the Record with Bob Costas.
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The Senior PGA Tour?s decision to award its broadcast rights to CNBC has paid early dividends.
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Transport and accommodation standards must improve for Britain to have a chance of bidding successfully for the Olympic Games, UK government Culture Secretary Chris Smith has said.
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Wembley National Stadium Ltd (WNSL) chairman Rodney Walker has started a new round of talks to discuss his plans for an athletics track in the new national stadium.
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The Mexican national soccer team has signed a partnership with US national Spanish-language television network Telemundo to broadcast all of Mexico's exhibition and official games.
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A new website that matches potential sponsors with rights holders has recorded more than 15,000 hits in its first two weeks of trading.
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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.
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The European Triathlon Union (ETU) has announced it is to hold an extraordinary congress immediately to discuss the threatened split from the organisation by eight member nations.
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UK commercial sports station TalkSPORT can continue to broadcast commentary of major sporting events off the TV as it did during Euro 2000, even if the BBC has rights to the event.
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English soccer First Division side Nottingham Forest has reported losses of #4.8m ($7.3m) for the year to May 31, 2000.