Europe

Swissair is to be the official airline of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the committee?s president Juan Antonio Samaranch told delegates meeting in Lausanne this week.

InMotion Technologies has signed a partnership deal for interactive sports on the web with Swisscom Broadcasting Services.

Olympic leaders said on Friday they would be holding immediate talks on whether Salt Lake City broke Olympic rules in its campaign to win the race to stage the 2002 Winter Games.

The Extreme Sports Channel, a joint venture between X-Dream International and UPC, Europe?s largest cable operator, has begun an advertising campaign on ski slopes across some of the most popular resorts in Austria.

Nordic insurance company "if?" is to replace Scania as title sponsor of the Swedish tennis tournament the Stockholm Open.

Crvena Zvezda Belgrade has said they planned to ignore an order by UEFA to play a European match at a neutral venue because of political tension.

World Cup Skateboarding (WCS), the world skateboarding sanctioning body and tour organiser, has appointed action-sport marketing agency IMS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sportsworld Media Group plc to manage its commercial interests globally.

Red Star Belgrade, who are appealing against a UEFA decision to play the home leg of their UEFA Cup first round tie with Leicester City away from Belgrade, have picked Vienna and Skopje as alternative venues.

SAR-AN International, the leading Turkish sports marketing company, has acquired the exclusive worldwide TV rights (outside of the league) of the Genclerbirligi Football Club for a period of 5 years.

Canadian Olympic gold medalist Myriam Bedard has announced she is suing Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. for C$725,000 ($500,000).

More than half of Italian soccer fans say that commercialisation is behind the downturn in fortunes experienced by their country's football teams.

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson will fight in Helsinki in August against an unnamed opponent.

Greenland, which has a population of 55,000 and around 3,000 soccer players, aims to become a member of FIFA and UEFA, national team coach Sepp Piontek has said.

The English Football Association and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) have put the finishing touches to a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which will lead to long-term technical co-operation between the two governing bodies.

Fiorentina said on Sunday that they would appeal against European soccer body UEFA's decision to kick the Italian league leaders out of the UEFA Cup.

Marriott International has been named the Official Lodging Supplier of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games and the 2000, 2002 and 2004 U.S. Olympic Teams.