China
Sponsorship & Marketing

CSI has signed a deal with German sports marketing agency SportA to represent, with immediate effect, its programming catalogue.
Business

Tom.com, the media and advertising company controlled by Hong Kong businessman Li Ka-Shing, has won the broadcast and advertising rights to China?s national basketball league, adding to its portfolio of Chinese volleyball, table tennis, rowing and college soccer rights.
Business

Osaka is not ready to throw in the towel in the race to stage the 2008 summer Olympic Games, bid officials have said.

Beijing would have liked a quiet period just now as the city bids to bring the Olympic Games to China for the first time. For the full story see the FEATURES section of sportbusiness.com.
Business

A cabinet minister and kimono-clad young women turned out to greet Olympics inspectors when they arrived on Sunday in Japan's western metropolis Osaka to evaluate its bid to stage the 2008 Summer Games.

Manchester United's Alex Ferguson has revealed his "roving ambassador" plans after retiring from the manager's job at the end of next season.
Business

Many of snooker?s top stars look set to join a breakaway tour which threatens to split the sport and end the domination of the game by its governing body, the WSA, following plans announced by The Sportsmasters Network (TSN).
Stadia

Toronto's bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games picked up momentum this week with a timely convergence of enthusiastic public support and a C$1.5-billion ($1 billion) pledge by government to redevelop Toronto's waterfront - the centrepiece of Toronto's Olympic vision.

Brazilian soccer legend Pele has taken on a new role as goodwill ambassador for the Brazilian oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro.
Business

FIFA will not change the result of the vote that gave the 2006 World Cup finals to Germany despite an appeal being mounted by narrow losers South Africa, a FIFA official said on Thursday.

Basketball's ruling body, FIBA, is to move its headquarters from Munich to Geneva by the end of 2002.
Stadia

Kai Tak airport in China is one of two new locations being considered for a world-class stadium, along with a site near Tuen Mun.
Business

The provisional 17-race schedule for next season was released Thursday by the FIA, auto racing's world governing body, at a meeting of the World Motor Sport Council.
Business

China rocked the Asian Games when their officials accused rival competitors of offering Chinese stars cash bribes to throw away guaranteed gold medals.

The man in charge of the 2000 Sydney Olympics has proposed a full audit of the records of the city's bid for the Games to clear the air "for once and for all" on allegations of corruption.

Preparations for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games are in full swing after the initial delays that worried the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Games broadcasting supremo Manolo Romero said on Thursday.
Sponsorship & Marketing

A man is suing Sydney's Olympic Games organisers for more than A$19m ($9.6m/?11m) claiming they breached their contract allowing him to sell memberships to an Olympic loyalty programme.
Business

A US government official has stated that President George Bush will not block Bejing?s bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games, despite the current political unrest between the US and China.