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Britain's sporting image was severly dented today after The International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) decided to reopen bidding for the 2005 World Championships following the Picketts Lock debacle.

World Sport Group, the Alternative Investment Market (AIM)-listed sports rights company, which emerged from the cash shell Orchard Furniture in August this year, expects its financial performance for the year to December 31 to meet market expectations.

UEFA has whittled down to two the agencies bidding to market its Champions League tournament.

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Interactive gaming and gambling platform TradingSports has teamed up with sport brand-building consultancy WSM to develop a global strategy for the platform.

Top sports bodies and athletes joined the World Health Organisation (WHO) in calling for a ban on tobacco advertising and smoking at sports events.

Attheraces, the media consortium run by BSkyB, Channel 4 and Arena Leisure, will finally launch its interactive website on December 11 after it received approval from the pools betting operator UK Tote.

World Wrestling Federation Entertainment (WWF) has reported a softening of demand for its events and programming in its second quarter results.

Formula One aims to ban tobacco advertising by 2007, the sport's ruling body has reiterated.

Scotland is considering a joint bid with the Republic of Ireland to host football's 2008 European Championships according to UK newspaper reports.

South Africa has taken over the hosting of the first women's Champions Challenge international hockey tournament from India because of security concerns, the sport's governing body (FIH) has confirmed.

Low ticket prices mean the Commonwealth Games in Manchester next year will be the most popular ever, the chief executive of organisers M2002 has said.

The UK government’s handling of the Wembley Stadium project was a “scandalously inept treatment of public money,” according to a report by the culture, media and sport select committee.

The English soccer strike fiasco could still be avoided, Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) chief Gordon Taylor has said – if soccer chiefs meet the PFA's demands for a bigger slice of TV revenues prior to strike day on December 1.

The Pan-American Sports Network (PSN) is to broadcast soccer’s Copa Toyota Intercontinental final live to Latin America on November 27.

Clear Channel Entertainment's motor sports division has signed a three-year deal agreement with Anaheim's Edison International Field to produce its motor sports events at the Southern California facility until 2005.