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A reassuring progress report on Euro 2000 has been issued by tournament director Alain Cortais.

Saturday's Grand Prix final will be staged in Moscow as planned despite security fears among leading competitors, the International Amateur Athletic Federation has said.

European Cup holders Real Madrid lost their appeal against a one match home ban.

Indonesia and Thailand could be disciplined by the Asian Football Federation following the bizarre behaviour of their teams in a Tiger Cup group match.

National Football League owners have accepted a $530 million bid for the expansion Cleveland Browns from businessman Alfred Lerner following one of the most intense bidding wars in sports history.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has hit out on at

The naming deal for Sydney's Olympic Stadium is expected to be worth more than $A30m.

Drivers have got lost and some buses have simply not turned up, but team officials have said the biggest teething problem of the 16th Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur - transport - is getting better.

World athletic supremo Primo Nebiolo has been criticised for saying the scheduling clash between the World Cup in South Africa and the Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games was the fault of Games organisers.

The National Rugby League (NRL) has agreed to stage its showcase matches at the Sydney Olympic Stadium from 1999, Stadium Australia Group has announced.

World athletics chief Primo Nebiolo has assured British Sports Minister Tony Banks that London would have a good chance of staging the 2003 world championships if proposed renovations to Wembley Stadium are completed.

European champions Real Madrid football club's debts have risen to 20.15 billion pesetas ($132.8 million).

Australia today enters the final two years of preparations for the Sydney 2000 Olympics with the construction of venues on target but with officials admitting to some nerves as the great event draws near.

Former Thai soccer coach Withaya Laohakul said he hoped a decision by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to ban the country from international competition would only be a temporary punishment.

British investment company ENIC Plc has announced the acquisition of an interest in Swiss soccer club FC Basel, continuing the recent rash of corporate merger and take-over activity in the soccer sector.

Australia, which hosts the next Olympic Games in the year 2000, said it wanted to jail drug pushers - rather than athletes - with its controversial proposal for criminalising doping in sport.