Events

The UK city of Liverpool has been selected as the host port of the start and finish of the 2005/6 and 2007/8 Round the World Yacht Races.

SportelAsia has been postponed for the second year running, amid a fear the SARS virus could reawaken over the winter months.

Building on the platform of this year's Rugby World Cup, Japan is lobbying to be included in the Southern Hemisphere's Super 12 series from 2006.

The International Olympic Committee has commended Athens following the latest inspection of the preparations for next year's Olympics whilst warning that there are still many issues to address.

Tracy Edwards (pictured) has struck back at critics of a rival sailing event which claims she stole their ideas when announcing her own series of events earlier this month.

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Italian sports marketing firm Media Partners has revamped its winter sports portal just ahead of this weekend’s Ski World Cup.

Communications firm T-Mobile has become the eighth firm to sign up as a major sponsor for the UEFA 2004 European Football Championship, which takes place in Portugal next summer.

The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff has brought the responsibility for promotions and events of the 74,500 seater, multi-facility venue in-house.

Bookmaker Ladbrokes has become the first ever programme sponsor of digital channel Attheraces live racing coverage.

The new series of international sailing events based in and around Qatar have been labelled as "thinly disguised copies" of an existing concept in an angry retort to the series' launch last week.

The IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships, staged in the UK earlier this year, resulted in a $6.18m (EUR5.31m) financial boost to the local economy, according to figures released today by UK Sport, the organisation responsible for co-ordinating major events in the UK.

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In Demand Networks has signed a multi-year deal with the NBA to transmit both the high-definition and standard-definition signals of NBA TV to carriers of the league's network.

The Women's World Cup soccer final between Germany and Sweden set TV ratings records in both countries.

UK agency the GEM Group has won the account handling contract for energy supplier BG Group's yacht sponsorship in the fourth Global Challenge race.