Stadia

Sydney is to host the annual rugby union competition the Bledisloe Cup.

The International Amateur Athletic Federation has said it will still stage the Golden League-Grand Prix final in Moscow on September 5 despite calls for the venue to be changed.

A new study into the potential impact of the $A5 billion Docklands development in Melbourne, which includes a major new stadium project, concludes that the city's Central Business District propertymarket could be squeezed.

Expenditure on Melbourne's Docklands project is likely to be around the $A5 billion being spent on infrastructure for the Sydney 2000 Olympics.

German insurer Albingia will provide insurance cover totalling 2.5 billion marks ($1.4 billion) for the next soccer World Cup in Japan and South Korea in 2002, Welt am Sonntag newspaper said on Sunday.

The Seven Network is launching its new "virtual signage" technology during the telecast on 11 July, 1998, of the Bledisloe Cup rugby union broadcast.

Sports agent Joe Cubas is to meet Florida Marlins owner Wayne Huizenga this week to make an offer to buy the baseball team.

Television companies who use digital technology to superimpose studio-generated advertising on live broadcasts have been threatened with a ban from the historic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

Japan and South Korea, co-hosts of the 2002 World Cup, are pushing ahead with their plans to build new stadiums despite the economic crisis in Asia.

Australian watchdog, the Australian Broadcasting Authority, has announced it will review the use by commercial television company, Seven Network, of new "virtual billboard" advertising during sporting event broadcasts.

The government of Victoria, Australia, is to build an A$5million indoor-training velodrome in the suburbs to complement its $65million multi-purpose velodrome planned for Melbourne Park.

British Horseracing received a boost when the Horserace Betting Levy Board's Annual Report announced a growth of more than one percent in betting turnover on racing in 1997/8.

The Queensland Government has outlaid $A20 million to successfully bid for the 2001 Goodwill Games which will see $A167 million returned in direct economic benefits to the states.

English Premier League winners Arsenal are hoping to play their European Champions' League games in the new season at Wembley stadium where the capacity (78,000) is more than twice that of the club?s own Highbury stadium.

Brisbane's selection to host the Goodwill Games in 2001 would provide the city with its biggest event since the 1988 Expo, Queensland Premier Peter Beattie has said.

The Malaysian government has awarded a huge RM12 million contract to a local company, Dayacom, to maintain the RM1.2mil National Sports Complex in Bukit Jalil.