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The world athletics federation has accused cash-strapped Sydney Olympic organisers of selling unauthorised Games tickets to "make cash".

A senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) official has said he expected the Games to be held in Africa in the next 10 years.

Promoter SFX Entertainment Inc has acquired Tellem & Associates, in a deal that creates a powerhouse sports agency that will represent some 700 professional sports figures including Nomar Garciaparra, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan.

A clash between football and athletics bosses over London's Wembley Stadium is compromising Britain's hopes of staging future Olympic Games, the British Olympic Association's chief executive has said.

This weekend?s Rugby World Cup final between France and Australia drew an audience of over 14 million French television viewers or 79.6 percent of those watching French TV at the time, TV group TF1 has said.

Irish state broadcaster RTE has said it had failed to resolve a row with a Turkish television company over the rights to broadcast Wednesday's Euro 2000 play-off between Ireland and Turkey in Bursar.

Major League Soccer (MLS) had made a number of changes to its format and rules, as well as its matchday and broadcast schedules, according to the soccer industry newsletter, The Soccer Investor Daily Bulletin.

Olympic chief Juan Antonio Samaranch, under fire for most of 1999 over a corruption scandal, has admitted he might have quit earlier this year if just a quarter of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had turned against him.

Prize money for the Sanex WTA Tour will be increased by more than $3 million for the 2000 season, organisers have announced.

The European Broadcasting Union has secured rights to broadcast the World Athletics Series beyond 2001.

Uli Hoeness, commercial manager of Germany's richest football club, Bayern Munich, has backed a decision by the German Football Association to allow pay-per-view broadcasts of Bundesliga soccer matches.

UEFA?s executive committee will stage its first meeting of the new century at UEFA's new headquarters, the House of European Football, in Nyon on February 11.

Malaysia's Sports Ministry will market the main stadium, indoor stadium and other facilities built for the Commonwealth Games to those wishing to use them after September, the New Stratits Times reported.

Sports management groups in Australia say that sponsorship dollars are harder to come by because they are being siphoned off to Olympic contracts, the Australian Financial review reports.

Vandals have damaged equipment at a new indoor gymnastics stadium being built for September's Commonwealth Games, delaying the transfer of the complex to Malaysian authorities by at least a month.

International Speedway Corporation, a leading promoter of motorsports activities, is registering a public offering of 4,000,000 new shares of Class A Common Stock being offered by the Company.