Romania

News Corp and Liberty Media has announced that its joint venture Fox Sports International is to launch a sports television channel targeting viewers in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Russia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.

Both the BBC and its rival ? the commercial network ITV ? will broadcast live coverage of the England vs Germany clash at Euro 2000 this summer.

A Texas judge has declared Olympic gymnast Dominique Moceanu an adult, ending a bitter legal dispute in which she accused her parents of squandering the fortune she made in sports.

Andreea Raducan, the Romanian gymnast stripped of a gold medal in Sydney for taking a banned substance, has said she will sue the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to clear her name.

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

Romanian soccer club Rapid Bucharest has appointed Gheorghe Dinu as its general manager to replace Dinu Dragan, named as the team manager.

Rapid Bucharest may be banned from international competition by FIFA for using an unauthorised agent to set up a player's transfer abroad, a Romanian official has said.

The Romanian Professional League (LFP) has banned first division clubs Steaua and Dinamo Bucharest from allowing their supporters to sit in large groups after trouble at their derby last weekend.

The Euro 2000 website received more than a billion visits during the championships, making it one of the most popular sites ever, according to the company hosting the site.

This season's secondary European club rugby competition has been launched with a new name, the European Shield rebranded as the Parker Pen Shield.

Tennis tournaments in the US and Brazil will continue this week despite Tuesday's terror attacks in New York and Washington.

The main shareholder in Romania's National Bucharest has had his licence withdrawn by the country's soccer federation for failing to honour the contracts of 15 players, a club official has said.