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Multi-soccer club stake-holder ENIC plc has reported a £1million ($1.43m/EUR1.62m) profit in the company's unaudited interim results for the period ending December 31, 2001.

Long-term rights holder and production distributor Dorna has forecast that television coverage of motorcycling's MX World Championships will reach new highs in 2002.

Platini, who had a glittering playing career leading France to victory in the 1984 European Championships and also later managed the side, is hoping to gain a seat on both bodies during elections at the UEFA Congress in Stockholm on April 25.

Fourteen candidates have been proposed for seven seats on UEFA's Executive Committee ahead of its elections on April 24.

Ski legend Toni Sailer, a triple Olympic champion, has used the scene of Alpine skiing's blue-riband race to drum up support for Austria's bid to host the 2010 Winter Games.

Dorna Sports and Prima TV have signed a deal which grants the broadcasting rights for motorcycling's MotoGP World Championship in 2002, 2003 and 2004.

The National Hockey League has expanded its international reach by signing TV deals in a number of eastern European regions.

UEFA will decide the venue for next year's European under-21 championships at a meeting on December 13.

The Czech Republic’s leading commercial broadcaster TV Nova has clinched a two-year deal for the broadcast rights for the top two Czech soccer leagues.

Sports group Enic - which has a majority stake in English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and has stakes in five other European clubs, including Glasgow Rangers and Slavia Prague -has moved into the red after reshaping its investment portfolio.

The Euro 2000 soccer competition handed European soccer's governing body, UEFA, net profits of $48million (B

UEFA president Lennart Johansson has said it is ‘essential’ European soccer’s governing body continues to co-operate closely with world authority FIFA.

The executive committee for European soccer governing body UEFA meets in Prague today to discuss a number of issues including its business plan for 2002.

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France stayed ahead of Brazil atop of the FIFA world soccer rankings for a third straight month, while Germany climbed three places to fifth.

The UEFA executive committee will hold a meeting next week in the Czech Republic – with its business plan for 2002 top of the agenda.