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New Balance Athletic Shoe, the Boston, USA-based footwear provider, has renewed its four-year sponsorship of modern pentathlon until the Athens 2004 Olympic Games for an undisclosed amount.
Business

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.
Business

FIFA president Sepp Blatter faces the toughest fight of his career this week when delegates from around 200 national associations meet in Buenos Aires for FIFA's Extraordinary Congress.
Business

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) plans to step up its fight against drugs in sport by helping to finance testing for the stamina-boosting drug erythropoietin (EPO).
Business

Sports Resource Group plc is to acquire Sweden-based IEC in Sports International Events and Communications AB for an initial consideration of up to £17.5million ($25.04m/B

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.
Media

The September 8 fight between former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and Denmark's Brian Nielsen has been finalised, Danish promoter Mogens Palle has confirmed.
Events

The two clubs who reach the European Cup Final next May will each receive up to 25,000 tickets for the match at the Stade de France in Paris, UEFA has announced.

Organisers of soccer's Women's World Cup say they are on course to top 500,000 ticket sales before the event kicks-off in June.

Clubs who form a breakaway northern European League will not be able to take part in the lucrative Champions League, according to European soccer's ruling body UEFA.
Events

The European Commission has backed a UK government pledge forcing broadcasters to screen the UK?s major sports events on free-to-air television.
Events

Terrestrial Swedish television company SVT, are claiming damages of 500 000 Swedish Krona ($66,000) from ISPR.

A three-year agreement between the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and the NHL over compensation payments for players leaving IIHF-federations to find their fortune in the big money US league, is on the verge of being ratified.
Events

The British Broadcasting Corporation?s Outside Broadcasts Special Facilities team is to install the world's first slalom gate cameras for a new extreme sports event in Stockholm.

Holders Real Madrid will find out their first opponents in the 2000/2001 Champions League on
Media

Extreme Sports Channel, the adventure and adrenaline sports service, is now available on digital cable in Germany.

A year before the Euro 2000 soccer championships, organisers received a possible taste of things to come as hooligans linked to Rotterdam's Feyenoord fought with police and wrecked the centre of their own city.

The Belgian authorities have expelled a Yugoslav soccer federation official after he was found selling black market tickets at Euro 2000.