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NEW IOC TOP PARTNER

Health care product supplier Johnson & Johnson will join the International Olympic Committee's Olympic Partners (TOP) programme.

The deal, including global marketing rights, begins at the close of the Torino Winter Games.

The deal extends up to and including the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008.

Johnson & Johnson became a domestic partner of Torino 2006 and Beijing 2008 in July 2005, with the new deal allowing it to activate its marketing rights globally.

The partnership brings to 12 the number of worldwide sponsors of the Olympic Games.