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Moscow's bid to host the 2005 World Athletics Championships has an excellent chance of success, the head of Russian athletics said.

The IAAF has received interest from eight cities to host the 2005 World Championships following the withdrawal of London at the end of last year.

Eight cities have shown an interest in staging the World Championships competition in 2005 after it was controversially taken away from the UK after the Picketts Lock debacle.

Sport in Finland is in crisis with a number of leading clubs set to go bust.

Scotland is considering a joint bid with the Republic of Ireland to host football's 2008 European Championships according to UK newspaper reports.

With time running out until the opening game of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, many broadcasters are playing a waiting game over TV rights. Tim Wallace explains why

Finnish sports marketing agency Makra has organised the first ever webcast soccer match in Finland.

The Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have confirmed their intention to bid for the right to host the 2008 European Championships.

The four-country Nordic bid for the 2008 European football championships has announced the venues it is proposing to host the tournament.

Tele-Cine, the builders of secure TV and internet production facilities, has signed a long-term contract to provide transmission services for the digital TV channel gobarkingmad - a live, 24-hour greyhound racing channel where punters can see a race every five to eight minutes.

UK satellite broadcaster Sky Sports is to use split-screen technology for its pay-per-view coverage of the final soccer World Cup qualifying matches in England's group.

The image of pay-per-view (PPV) sports television was tarnished today just weeks before the English Premier League launches its PPV soccer matches after PPV film and sport service u>direct abandoned its plans to broadcast tomorrow’s Intertoto Cup semi-final between Newcastle United and Munich 1860.

French President Jacques Chirac, promoting the Paris bid to stage the 2008 Olympic Games, has told Russian Olympic officials that the organisation of the Games would be problem-free if they were held in the French capital.

UK-based pay-per-view (PPV) film and sports service u>direct TV has gone into voluntary liquidation, sportbusiness.com can confirm. Roger Hall, the company’s chief operating officer told us this morning that the company had failed to attain financial profitability and was therefore forced to shut down its operations.

Sion officials have made the trip to Olympic headquarters, formally submitting their bid to host the 2006 Winter Games.

Tele-Cine, the builders of secure TV and internet production facilities, has signed a long-term contract to provide transmission services for the digital TV channel gobarkingmad - a live, 24-hour greyhound racing channel where punters can see a race every five to eight minutes.