Australia
FINA REVEAL WORLD CUP RACE REDUCTION
The World Cup short-course swimming series has been cut from 12 meetings to 10 and will offer more prize money.
SPANISH SIDES WANT ONE PLAYER PER CLUB AT OLYMPICS
Scheduling conflicts between professional soccer and the IOC over soccer player availability for the Olympic Games in Sydney have provoked Spanish clubs to take unilateral action on the issue.
UPS IN OLYMPIC DISPUTE
United Parcel Service may sue the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) following SOCOG?s acceptance of a sponsorship from rival courier TNT.
OLYMPIC VENUE COUNTS COST AFTER MOCK ATTACK
One of the venues for this year's Sydney Olympics has been partly destroyed by an Australian Defence Force team conducting a mock anti-terrorism exercise.
AUSTRALIAN THREATENS BODYSUIT PROTEST
An Australian international swimmer is threatening to take legal action over the sport's controversial new bodysuits.
TICKETING CHAOS HITS SHOWPIECE AUSTRALIAN STADIUM
The Australian Football League (AFL) could face a 40-year problem if fans reject the new Colonial Stadium in Melbourne according to AFL official, Colin Carter.
SOCOG DEFEND CLAIMS OF LATEST TICKET `BLUNDER?
Sydney Olympics organisers have said hundreds of thousands of printed tickets were too big to fit into turnstiles.
OLYMPIC SPONSOR FACES UNION THREAT
Australian unionists angered by planned job cuts could disrupt a key sponsor's preparations for Sydney's Olympic Games, according to a local newspaper report.
AFL OFFICIAL QUITS TO HEAD NEW STADIUM
Leading Australian Football League official Ian Collins is to leave his post to become chief executive at Melbourne's new multi-purpose Docklands Stadium.
SOCOG RECEIVES OLYMPIC PLAUDITS
IOC Coordination Committee chairman, Jacques Rogee, has given SOCOG a glowing endorsement for their work in the lead up to the Sydney Olympic Games 2000.
NEW DOPING DEAL SIGNED
France and Australia have signed an agreement to join forces against doping.
SOUTH SYDNEY AXED IN NFL COMPETITION
Australia's oldest surviving rugby league team has axed from next year's National Rugby League competition, the latest victim in a major shake-up of Australia's most popular football code.
OLYMPICS CHIEF APOLOGISES FOR TICKET FIASCO
Sydney's Olympic Games chief has apologised to Australians for a misleading public ticket ballot and promised to refund thousands of fans who had ended up with third-choice tickets.
MINISTERS CALL FOR STANDARD DOPE BAN
Sports ministers from 24 nations have called for a two-year ban across all sports for first-time doping offences and for year-round random drug testing.
STADIUM BLOW AS VENUE NOT READY FOR OPEN
Australian tennis officials have said a new 10,000 seat stadium would not be ready for the Australian Open in January.
FIE SCRAP NEW SCORING TECHNOLOGY FOR OLYMPICS
The International Fencing Federation (FIE) says it has scrapped plans to use new wire-less technology in epee events at the Sydney Olympics.
PACKER’S $175M TV DEAL
The managing director of Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd (PBL), James Packer, has announced a new seven-year deal between the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) and the Nine Network.
SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY PLAYERS FORM ASSOCIATION
Springbok captain Gary Teichmann and the majority of South Africa's leading rugby union players have announced they were forming a players' association.