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Britain's first online tax-free betting service has launched into National Football League betting in the United States.

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.

An unidentified athlete has tested positive for the blood-boosting drug EPO (erythropoetin) at the World Athletics Championships, Istvan Gyulai general secretary of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said on Thursday.

Global spending on sponsorship of sports websites has reached $453 million according to a new report published jointly by SportBusiness Information Resources and Sponsorship Research International (SRi)

A favourable review of Beijing's 2008 Games bid by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) showed human rights protestors and US critics were out of step with world opinion, a Beijing official said on Sunday.

A study by the Sports Consulting Group of Andersen, SCORE, has found that England is ?Europe?s football related tax paradise? and that France has the most problems in attracting well-known international players.

South Korean soccer fans have applied for more than one million tickets for the 2002 World Cup finals, four times the number of seats offered in the first round of sales, organisers said on Thursday.

France's world-beating soccer team will come out on Tuesday in support of Paris's bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games.

The EURO 2000 football championships were watched by a cumulative audience of seven billion people, a new survey reveals.

Sportal is to launch a dedicated wintersports section, produced in association with wintersports specialist ifyouski.com, to add to the channel line up on sportal.co.uk.

Exxus, the sports business to business information provider, has won the contract to supply the English PFA (Professional Footballers Association) statistics on players, matches and teams for its 'Give Me

The European Triathlon Union (ETU) says it is prepared to take legal action to recover the debts owed by the eight national triathlon federations, which last week announced the unsanctioned formation of the breakaway Triathlon Council for Europe.

Beijing has started radio English lessons to get its citizens up to speed in the race for the 2008 Olympic Games, according to local reports.

Karl-Heinze Rummenigge, Bayern Munich's representative in the self-appointed G14 lobby group of Europe's biggest clubs, has spoken out against the current Champions League format.

Eurosport has secured a broadcast sponsorship deal with computer processors supplier AMD for an extensive package of World Cup qualifying programming.

Promising a "utopia" for competitors, Toronto Olympic bid organisers have sought to rally athletes behind their campaign for the 2008 Games.