Australia

Sydney 2000 Olympic Games contracts worth $400 million are still available for small businesses in areas ranging from crowd control to laundering.

The New South Wales Council of Social Service (NCOSS)has complained that lower income earners will be excluded form the Sydney Olympics.

Pay per view television events in Australia are set to rocket to the same levels as in the States, according to Foxtel chief executive Tom Mockridge.

Applications for tickets to the Sydney 2000 Olympics have surpassed initial sales for the last Games in Atlanta and exceeded even local expectations, the Games organising authority has said.

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has said he will allow free-to-air television broadcasts of grand prix motor racing for as long as he can.

Community First Credit Union has confirmed a financial services partnership with iSport, the Sydney, Australia-based provider of technology solutions and direct marketing services to sporting bodies.

Turner Network Television will still broadcast a significant amount of live Goodwill Games action in the US despite an unfavourable time difference to Australia.

Australia?s second largest pay-TV provider Austar United Communications has seen its operating losses widen in its latest set of financial results.
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The Olympic Games have become so big they risk pressuring host cities into building big facilities that become "white elephants" once the athletes have packed up their medals and gone home, the new head of International Olympics has said.

Angry football supporters wearing red noses protested outside headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) on Tuesday after the four-times world champions' shock defeat by Honduras the day before.

The Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitas has failed to persuade Olympic shooting champion Michael Diamond to surrender his Australian citizenship for a Greek one in time for the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004.

India is racing against time to complete the preparations for the first Afro-Asian games in November, which has been hit by delays in getting facilities ready, poor financial returns and low-key competitions.

The head of the Australian Rugby Union has rejected claims by his English counterpart that the British Lions were not getting a big enough slice of revenue from their upcoming tour of Australia.

American athletes are to learn how to be more modest when they pick up medals at the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2002. The move comes after criticism of their flamboyant celebrations at the Sydney Olympics last summer.

The Edinburgh based global sports marketing and entertainment business, Carnegie Group, is hoping to strengthen its position in Australia with the appointment of Tim McDermott as chief executive officer.

Ansett Australia has signed a six-year deal to sponsor the Australian Football League?s Rookie of the Year.