Russia

An agreement to build a multifunctional motor sport complex in Moscow, part of which will be a Formula 1 track, has been approved by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and president of the British company TWR Group Tom Walkinshaw.

Russian soccer officials are becoming increasingly disturbed by allegations of attempted bribery and intimidation of referees.

Packaged television sport for a global cable audience has ensured the immediate future of the Goodwill Games.

Russia will submit an official application to UEFA to host the European Championship finals in 2008 within the next two weeks, the country's soccer chief has said.

Outgoing president Juan Antonio Samaranch pulled strings for Belgian Jacques Rogge to win Monday's IOC presidential election, a losing South Korean candidate has claimed.

The toe-dipping around the Olympic pool is set to stop and the serious contenders are preparing to dive into the race for world sport's most powerful job - the International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidency.

Indian hockey authorities have sacked chief coach Vasudevan Baskaran and dropped three senior players after their disappointing seventh-place finish at the Sydney Olympics.

Cash-strapped Lokomotiv St Petersburg could become the second first division side to drop out of the Russian soccer championship.

Russian football bosses are demanding extremely tight security at all domestic league matches after two bomb blasts in Moscow killed more than 130 people in four days.

The Polish Sports Ministry has welcomed a proposal by the country's top soccer clubs to stave off the threat of an international ban.

Russian champions Spartak Moscow will appeal against an order banning fans from tomorrow's home match after their followers clashed with police at their lastgame.

Leading IOC member Jacques Rogge is poised to take over the most powerful job in world sport as IOC president in July, according to the results of a new survey.

Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger has warned that soccer could be heading for trouble over the new transfer system and said that it lacked all-round support from the game.

Japan has no plans to launch a new investigation into allegations the central Japanese city of Nagano bribed International Olympic Committee (IOC) executives to host the 1998 Winter Games.

Russians have commemorated the 20th anniversary of the opening of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, seen in the country as an unqualified success despite a debilitating boycott by Western countries.

Russian soccer was "a disaster" at home and abroad in 1999, the long serving president of the Russian Football Union has said.