Stadia

IOC presidential candidate Dr Jacques Rogge has opened this years? sport industry conference SportBusiness 2001 - The Main Event.

The golf course building subsidiary of the PGA European Tour has announced a rise in full year profits despite difficult trading conditions in the UK and across mainland Europe.

Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) has forecast total revenues of approximately $75 - $78 million for the year 2001 and a pre-tax profit for the year expected to be approximately 32 per cent of total revenues.

Broadcast technology innovator InMotion Technologies decided to change its name to Dartfish.

Bayern Munich is ready to invest in several players to build a new, stronger team, club president Franz Beckenbauer said on Tuesday.

Shares in Nasdaq-listed Quokka Sports have slumped 50 per cent after the digital sports content company voted for a 1-for-50 reverse stock split intended to boost the stocks share price and prevent the company from being forced to de-list on the Nasdaq technology stock exchange.

Munich will miss out on the 2006 World Cup soccer finals in Germany because a row over a new stadium will not be solved on time, TSV 1860 Munich president Karl-Heinz Wildmoser said on Tuesday.

Tickets to this year?s Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

FIFA is set to call a special meeting of its emergency committee tomorrow to discuss the crisis at its marketing partner ISMM ? parent company of ISL.

The first Afro-Asian Games will go ahead in New Delhi in November as scheduled, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president has said.

ATP Tour chief Mark Miles has said the German city of Hamburg could not host one of the top events for men and women which are to be introduced next year.

The concourse at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles has taken on a new look with the addition of a new retail specialty shop.

Soccer?s European governing body UEFA has signed a technology partnership with communications giant Motorola to develop and enhance its official website.

UK internet portal Freeserve, has announced an exclusive pay-per-view trial enabling its 4 million unique users to view webcasts and further exclusive in-depth coverage from the Lennox Lewis training camp in the build-up to his world title fight in South Africa on April 22.

South African doctors battled through the night to save the lives of several children critically injured in a stampede that killed at least 43 people during a soccer match in Johannesburg.

English Premier League Soccer revenues grew by 15 percent last year to #772m ($1.1bn) and are forecast to reach #1bn ($1.43bn) by 2001, according to a report by accountants Deloitte & Touche.