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The shake-up of the National Lottery by the UK government will have positive benefits for elite sport according to funding distributor UK Sport.

US Olympic broadcaster NBC has reason to celebrate after Vancouver won the 2010 Winter Olympics.

London is to host an international speedway event for the first time in seven years.

Food retailer Safeway has signed a title sponsorship deal with the LPGA for the Phoenix golf tournament on the women's tour.

Vancouver has been named as the host city for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Sports marketing giant IMG has announced the appointment of Robyn Nuss as managing director of its South African subsidiary.

Sports licensing and merchandising specialist Re:Activ Ltd has signed a deal with Octagon, the European Athletic Association’s commercial agent, to handle merchandising rights for the Spar European Cross Country Championships.

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge will open the envelope containing the name of the host city of the 2010 Winter Olympics later this afternoon.

Internet content publisher SportsLine.com has signed a technology deal with DDB Technologies to utilise the latter's interactive media to cover live sporting events.

Television Corporation, the company behind the Hawk-Eye ball analysis technology used in cricket and tennis coverage, has announced losses of £1 million (EUR1.4m/$1.6m) for the half-year.

IEC in Sports has been appointed to distribute the TV rights for Spanish soccer club Real Madrid's summer tour of Asia.

Moves to reform the US Olympic Committee will be discussed next week when International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge meets with the Donald Fehr, co-chair of the congressionally appointed panel that studied the proposals.

Jon Varney has moved from sports marketing agency Octagon to take up the post of commercial director at English governing body Premier Rugby.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge will confirm the host city for the 2010 Winter Olympics later this week with Vancouver, Salzburg and Pyeongchang fighting it out for the prize.

English Premier League soccer team Leeds United has named Neil Robson as the club's new finance director.

ESPN's ratings for the National Basketball Association (NBA) draft rose 24 percent from last year's broadcast on AOL Time Warner's TNT.