Stadia

Television ad inventories are selling out as France prepares for next month's WorldCup tournament.

The Victorian Premier, Jeff Kennett, has announced that a $A65.4m "super stadium" would be constructed in Melbourne's Yarra Park precinct, in time for the 2000 Australian Tennis Open.

British Sports Minister Tony Banks has ordered officials to prepare for the possibility of England staging the 2002 World Cup, The Daily Express has reported.

Berlin's Olympic stadium, built by Adolf Hitler's Nazis to host the 1936 Olympic Games, is to be renovated as a multi-functional sports venue, according to the Berlin city government.

The construction of Sydney's Olympic facilities for the 2000 Games is moving rapidly towards its completion, with deadlines being met ahead of schedule.

British Sports Minister Tony Banks has denied a newspaper report claiming England could stage the 2002 World Cup in place of joint hosts South Korea and Japan.

Leading sports event media and marketing group ISL have appointed Dagmar Brandenstein managing director of ISL Television Ltd. Daniel Beauvois will move to the headquarters of ISL in Lucerne, Switzerland to head the newly formed Media Division.

Nascar is to stage 15-25 branded concerts from May-August next year in partnership with CBS and TNN, in a move to attract a younger and more geographically diverse audience.

The decision by English premier league clubs to reject pay-per-view television proposals for next season is likely to be only a temporary reprieve for hard-up English soccer supporters.

World Cup tickets are being sold illegally on the internet for over $10,000.

South Korea's organising committee for the 2002 World Cup has said a stadium planned to be built in Seoul by the LG Group was not for hosting any of the Cup soccer matches.

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.

The London based sports management group IMG and its broadcasting operation TWI have signed an exclusive deal with Sci-del for the provision of virtual advertising services.

Ian Dicker, president of Australian Rules football entity, Hawthorn Football Club, has called on the sport's organising body, the Australian Football League Commission, to maintain the AFL park venue in the Melbourne suburb of Waverley.

Sepp Blatter, one of two contenders for the presidency of soccer's world governing body FIFA, has promised to bring the World Cup to Africa in 2006 if he is elected next week.

BT has announced the 1998 football World Cup has generated #2 million worth of business for BT Broadcast Services.