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The IAAF has received interest from eight cities to host the 2005 World Championships following the withdrawal of London at the end of last year.
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Eight cities have shown an interest in staging the World Championships competition in 2005 after it was controversially taken away from the UK after the Picketts Lock debacle.
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Italy-based Delta Tre Informatica has been appointed by Host Broadcast Services to provide the real-time results system and TV graphics services for this year's soccer World Cup.
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Sports technology group Sportvision has joined forces with its counterpart Dartfish to market, sell and operate Dartfish's broadcast technology in North America.
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Communications firm Verizon has signed up as title sponsor of the world's oldest indoor track meet - the Millrose Games.
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Salt Lake City is just one month away from hosting a Winter Olympic Games like no other.
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Germany's Krombacher Brewery has become the new title sponsor of international luge event the Challenge Cup.
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Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport has opened a sales operation in Madrid.
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The split in darts is no closer to narrowing in 2002 as players continue to make the difficult choice of remaining loyal to the incumbent British Darts Organisation (BDO) or Barry Hearn's Professional Darts Corporation (PDC).
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Steve Flanagan has been appointed as vice president of corporate alliances for Clear Channel Entertainment, owners of the SFX Sports Group.
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Next week will see English Premier League club Derby County become the fourth team after Southampton, Chelsea and Aston Villa to launch its first ever regional digital radio station.
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English Premier League soccer club Liverpool is set to broadcast its first full game over the internet.
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The new year promises a boom period for stadium naming rights and interactive TV, according to hundreds of industry experts taking part in our online poll.
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The Walt Disney Company-owned networks ABC and ESPN have won the US rights to broadcast the next two World Cups and Major League Soccer (MLS) for the next five years, confirming their predicted long-term interest in the sport.
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Tennis' four Grand Slams should all be broadcast on one TV network in the US to make it more fan friendly, the man behind the Ericsson Open event has said.
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Manchester United has signed up Budweiser, the world's largest selling beer brand, as a 'Platinum Sponsor' and the club's 'Official Beer'.
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This summer's FIFA World Cup will have greater economic benefits for South Korea than for Japan, according to a report.
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The Athens 2004 cultural Olympics director has resigned, the second cultural Games boss to quit just months after Greece unveiled its $110million (B