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Bridon International, the UK-based steel wire and structural strand manufacturer, has secured a contract to supply cables for the major re-development of Lokomotiv Moscow's stadium in Russia.

International sports agency Prisma will meet with UK free-to-air broadcasters ITV and the BBC next month in an effort to break the deadlock over negotiations for the UK rights to the 2002 World Cup.

America's Cup holders, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, accepted the Swiss challenge for yachting's biggest prize on Monday after a month of legal wrangling.

Germany's transport minister has resigned, three days after being fined over a fraud at a soccer club dating from his days in local government.

Bertelsmann AG has launched a joint venture with iSyndicate, a provider of content syndication services and technologies on the internet.

Olympics chief Juan Antonio Samaranch says he is not worried about attacks on the organisation from international anti-graft campaigners.

iN Demand, the US pay-per-view network, is to showcase its first-ever sports production this autumn with the debut of five Sanex WTA Tour tournaments.

FIFA will not change the result of the vote that gave the 2006 World Cup finals to Germany despite an appeal being mounted by narrow losers South Africa, a FIFA official said on Thursday.

FIBA, forced to revamp its new flagship SuproLeague basketball tournament after a mass breakaway by clubs, has made the draw for next season.

The German Football Federation says it is considering taking legal moves against a magazine which sent out hoax letters offering to bribe FIFA officials the night before the all important vote in Zurich last week.

Franz Beckenbauer, the chief of Germany?s successful 2006 World Cup bid campaign, has said he is `elated? at his country?s victory in today?s FIFA vote in Zurich.

FIFA, world soccer?s governing body, appears to be back-tracking over a confidential report which ranked England's bid to stage the 2006 World Cup below that of rivals Germany and South Africa.

Bavarian tycoon Leo Kirch's media group has confirmed it plans to unite its three sports rights management agencies in a new holding company and integrate the Internet more strongly into its sports activities.

The new Wembley stadium, the centrepiece of England's bid to host the 2006 World Cup, has been granted planning permission, Wembley National Stadium (WNSL) said on Friday.

Internet portal Sportal has launched its first TV advertising campaign ? due to run until Euro 2000.

On the day that News Corps and Vivendi have proposed a joint shareholding of their digital businesses, European media big-hitters Bertelsmann, Groupe Bruxelles Lambert and Pearson (PTV) have agreed to merge CLT-UFA, Europe's leading commercial television and radio broadcaster, with Pearson Television, the independent television production company.

Most players in this year's Euro 2000 tournament will have to pay 18 percent of their earnings in tax, tournament officials have announced.

South African Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour has said his country would "comfortably earn" the right to stage the 2006 World Cup finals.