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The Football Association of Finland has elected to withdraw Helsinki’s bid to become one of the host cities for the Uefa Euro 2020 national team tournament in order to focus on attracting other events.
Business

The International Ice Hockey Federation’s commercial portfolio for the IIHF World Championship has been bolstered ahead of next month’s event with pharmaceutical giant Actavis coming on board as an official sponsor.
Events

European Athletics president Hansjörg Wirz has hailed Helsinki’s staging of the 2012 European Athletics Championships as an “excellent start” to the showpiece event’s new two-year cycle.
Stadia

Score Media today announced the launch of French, German and Portuguese editions of its dedicated BlackBerry football app, ScoreMobile FC.
Business

Russian telecommunications giant MegaFon has signed up as the final official sponsor for the forthcoming 2012 Ice Hockey World Championship.
Media

Modern Times Group (MTG) has snapped up a major “multi-year” package of broadcast rights that will take National Hockey League (NHL) action to audiences across the Nordic region.
Business

The National Hockey League (NHL) has announced it will launch its 2011-12 regular season by staging games in Finland, Sweden and for the first time in Germany.
Media

International sports media agency MP & Silva has agreed a four-season partnership with the National Basketball Association (NBA) to distribute league programming across Scandinavia.
Media

Swedish-based media rights agency IEC in Sports has agreed a multi-year deal with Finnish public-service broadcaster YLE for IAAF World Athletics events.
Business

ISC, the promoter of the World Rally Championship, has secured the position of Rally Finland on the calendar for five years in the first of a raft of new deals designed to strengthen the series.
Business

Sports goods retailer Intersport Finland has agreed a deal with UEFA to become a National Supporter and the Official Sports Shop of football’s Women’s Euro 2009 tournament.
Events

Innsbruck in Austria and Kuopio in Finland have been shortlisted to compete for host city rights for the 2012 Youth Olympic Winter Games.
Media

Additional sports right holders joined the Premier League’s class action lawsuit against YouTube and Google including the Rugby Football League; the Finnish Football League Association and boxing companies Knockout Entertainment Limited and Seminole Warriors Boxing.
Media

The 2007 WNBA All-Star Game, which will showcase the most talented female basketball players from around the world, will be televised in 198 countries with commentary in 30 languages.
Business

With more than 2 months to go before the opening of SPORTELMonaco 2006, exhibitors have committed to more than 85% of the expanded floor space in the Grimaldi Forum.
Business

Uefa President, Lennart Johansson, confirmed that he intends to seek a further, and final, term of office as Uefa President.
Events

The FC)dC)ration Internationale de l’Automobile approved the calendar for the 2007 World Rally Championship, adding three new races in Ireland, Norway and Portugal. The new races replace those in Australia, Cyprus and Turkey. The FIA said in a statement that its World Motor Sport Council had approved a calendar which would continue to run on the existing January-November format instead of the proposed August-May switch. It said that it would decide whether to add further events to the calendar at its next World Motor Sport Council meeting.

The 24-hour sports channel ESPN Classic agreed a deal with Spanish telecoms company TelefC3nica for carriage on its IPTV platform Imagenio. The deal marks the channel’s first move into the Spanish IPTV market.