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Rapidly shedding its image as a grey, northern industrial city, Manchester will project a youthful, vibrant image at the first Commonwealth Games of the new millennium.
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Celtic look set to build on their Scottish Premier Division triumph by moving for a main market listing, according to the UK Sunday Telegraph.
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The French Transport Ministry has urged air, rail and road haulage unions not to tarnish the image of France by carrying out their threat to strike during the forthcoming World Cup.
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Terrestrial Swedish television company SVT, are claiming damages of 500 000 Swedish Krona ($66,000) from ISPR.
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The organisers of 13th Asian Games in Bangkok are expecting an estimated incomeof 230,834,000 baht ($5.9m) from the ticket sales.
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Average ticket prices for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Game will be around A$57 (US$24), according to New South Wales Olympic Minister Michael Knight.
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Newmarket, headquarters of British flat racing, on Monday unveiled plans for a new stand, the most expensive project at a British racecourse.
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STAR Sports new pay channel service delivered record viewing figures for the Sharjah Cricket final, between India and Australia, broadcast on April 24th.
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Alan Pascoe, who sold his final holding in his API Group to Octagon on Monday, is back at the commercial helm of British athletics.
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London based Sports and Outdoor Media International has acquired The Boyer Group, Australia's principal sports stadia and outdoor advertising company.
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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.
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World Cycling Limited (WCL) and the Polish Cycling Federation have announced the founding of the Solidarity Cup, an international friendship series consisting of two major cycling events in Poland and the United States.
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Thirty members of the European Parliament have taken the French organisers of the soccer World Cup to court to force them to redistribute hundreds of thousands of tickets abroad.
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South Korea's unification ministry has said it was considering a plan to play some 2002 World Cup soccer matches in North Korea.
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The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) have signed an agreement with Israeli broadcaster JCS (Jersulem Capital Sports), to broadcast more than 70 NBA games and 20 WNBA games over the next two seasons.
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Television ad inventories are selling out as France prepares for next month's WorldCup tournament.
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Russian flagship carrier Aeroflot is seeing a passenger boom on flights from Rio de Janeiro to Moscow as Brazilian soccer fans seek a cheap way of travelling to Europe for the World Cup soccer finals.
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One of New Zealand's most powerful tribes, the Tainui tribe who are worth at least $NZ157 million ($134m), have joined forces with former Kiwi coach Graham Lowe in a bid to buy the Auckland Warriors.