Americas

Godolphin, the Dubai-based horse racing training operation, has chosen the Santa Anita racecourse in California as base for its North American training operation.

INTERVU Inc., a service provider for Internet audio and video delivery solutions, has been selected by Time Warner to provide streaming media services for the Winter Goodwill Games in Lake Placid, New York, February 17-20. INTERVU will deliver video highlights each day of the event to the Goodwill Games Web site located at: www.goodwillgames.com.

The Prost Formula One team has announced they will be sponsored by internet giant Yahoo! in the 2000 season.

Championship Auto Racing Teams has entered into a three-year agreement with fuel supplier elf Race Fuels and its exclusive agent in the U.S. and Mexico, Competition Fuels, Inc. to become the Official Fuel Supplier for the FedEx Championship Series.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter and Peter Velappan, head of the Asia Football Confederation, have said they are optimistic that an Asian boycott of the 2002 World Cup would be avoided.

Leading IOC member Jacques Rogge is poised to take over the most powerful job in world sport as IOC president in July, according to the results of a new survey.

Nearly 500 Special Olympics professionals, leaders, volunteers and friends from the Unites States, Mexico and Canada will gather in Kansas City, August 16-19, for the Special Olympics 2000 North America Conference.

Encouraged by the success of communist Beijing being awarded the 2008 Olympics, Cuba has announced its intention to bid for the 2012 event.

A vote scheduled by NBA team owners on the sale of the Vancouver Grizzlies to billionaire Bill Laurie was postponed at the request of the team's current owner John McCaw.

The Fleet Financial Group in Boston has announced that it will supply a $405m credit line to Major League Baseball.

International rugby union officials have decided to expand the Pacific Rim championship from four to seven teams.

National governments have expressed serious reservations about the final declaration adopted at a global anti-doping conference.

Organisers of the Sahara Cup cricket tournament have announced they are cancelling the one-day series between India and Pakistan in Canada this year because of the Kashmir conflict.

An NHL player agent has dismissed claims clubs are spending too much to attract the star names - despite mounting fears wage bills at some teams are spiralling out of control.

Alfredo Goyeneche, president of the Spanish Olympic Committee, says the Olympic Games will not return to Europe until 2016.

A court in the Swiss town of Zug declared the Swiss sports rights marketing firm ISMM-ISL officially bankrupt on Monday after French media group Vivendi Universal last week withdrew a rescue offer.