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FIFA HAPPY WITH KOREA WORLD CUP PREPARATIONS
South Korea is proceeding well with its preparations for co-hosting the 2002 World Cup finals, the head of a visiting FIFA delegation said on Tuesday.
IOC LAUNCH PROBE INTO SALT LAKE BID
Olympic leaders said on Friday they would be holding immediate talks on whether Salt Lake City broke Olympic rules in its campaign to win the race to stage the 2002 Winter Games.
BLATTER REAFFIRMS AFRICA WORLD CUP BACKING
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has reaffirmed his support for an Africa bid to host the 2006 World Cup finals when he met South African president Nelson.
MOORCROFT HEADS BRITISH GOVERNING BODY
Former world 5,000 metres record holder David Moorcroft has been confirmed as head of the British governing body UK Athletics.
FORMULA 1 UNDERWRITER DENIES BOND TAKEOVER REPORT
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, underwriter of a planned bond issue for Bernie Ecclestone's Formula One motor racing company, has said reports that other banks would take over the bond were inaccurate.
NTL MOVE IN ON NEWCASTLE UNITED
The UK's third biggest cable operator, NTL, has bought a 6.3% stake in the Premier League soccer club Newcastle United with an option to take control of the company in a deal which would value it at #160m.
SALT LAKE BID – REPORT LEAK HITS FRONT PAGE
A report on the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics bribery scandal has recommended disciplinary action including expulsion for up to 16 International Olympic Committee (IOC) members, according to the Wall Street Journal.
MURDOCH ITALIAN SOCCER OFFER DUE NEXT MONTH
News Corp Europe, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp empire, is set to make a formal offer for Italian television soccer rights by the end of February, chairman Letizia Moratti has announced.
TF1 & CANAL PLUS STAY QUIET ON TV RIGHTS REPORT
French terrestrial television station TF1 and pay television group Canal Plus have declined to comment on a report they were talking about sharing European football broadcasting rights.
ATLANTA CHIEF TELLS SYDNEY TO FORGE AHEAD
The man who ran the ill-fated 1996 Atlanta Games offered some advice to Sydney 2000 Games organisers on Friday: ignore an Olympic corruption scandal and trust that everything will come out right.
TWO REFEREE EXPERIMENT SET TO GET GREEN LIGHT
A season-long experiment of using two referees to control matches is likely to be approved at the annual meeting of soccer's law-making International Board on Saturday.
IRISH STADIUM IN IR#11M NAMING RIGHTS TALKS
Ireland's state-owned Telecom Eireann is set to pay IR#11 million for the naming rights to a planned 45,000-seat soccer stadium in southwest Dublin.
SA CELEBRATE NIGERIA BOOST
South African soccer officials have reacted with delight to Nigeria's decision to withdraw their bid to host the World Cup finals in 2006 and instead support the South African bid.
BEACH GAMES BROADCAST VIA WEB
The world's largest professional surfing competitions are set to anchor the $400,000 Panasonic ShockWave Beach Games from July 19 to August 1 in Huntington Beach.
SOCCER EVENT POSTPONED AS ORGANISERS ‘BREAK CONTRACT’
The CONCACAF Championship of Heroes, scheduled to take place in Trinidad next month has been postponed.
SKY WIN RYDER CUP RIGHTS
UK broadcaster Sky Sports has won the exclusive live rights to the next two Ryder Cups between Europe and the United States.
CINEMA GAINS FROM SOCCER BIDDING WAR
The bidding war between broadcasters for the rights to French soccer action is set to benefit French cinema, according to a French government minister.
FA BLOW AS FIFA SAY UNITED PULL-OUT WILL NOT BENEFIT 2006 BID
FIFA has said Manchester United's decision to take part in its World Team Championship will not make any difference to England's bid to host the 2006 World Cup.