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About 100 Olympic family members who overstayed their visas and remained illegally in Australia following the Sydney Games have ignored Immigration Department warnings to get out, a spokesman has said.

The Prost Formula One team said it has signed a three-year deal to use Michelin tyres.

The Paris-Dakar rally returns to its geographical roots in 2001 when the race starts from the French capital on New Year's Day before a 10,000-km trek across Europe and north Africa takes competitors to the Senegal capital.

Real Madrid members have approved the largest budget in the history of Spanish football at the first general assembly called by new president Florentino Perez.

Tickets.com, the official ticket supplier to the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games, will make tickets available for online purchase, commencing October 10, 2000.

Two Spanish cities are set to go head-to-head in a bid to land the rights to host the 2012 Olympic Games.

The Extreme Sports Channel has signed a deal with United Sport to broadcast Wake Up!

Barcelona has emerged as the favourite to host the Davis Cup final between Spain and Australia.

English Premier League club Aston Villa is the latest club to take delivery of a new training surface.

ESPN International has acquired a package of more than fifty 2002 World Cup qualifying matches from the European group, including matches involving England, Italy, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Norway, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Denmark and Portugal.

Spanish soccer club ? and Champions League finalist ? Real Madrid has signed an exclusive marketing contract with Global Sportnet.

Golf course management and ownership group PGA European Tour Courses, have reported a 49 per cent increase in pre-tax profits for 1999.

Quokka Sports, the digital sports entertainment company, and Terra Networks, Telefonica's Internet subsidiary, have signed a partnership agreement that will allow Quokka to expand the reach of its digital sports programming.

Three of the six major categories at Sportel's Golden Podium Awards, the international sports TV competition held in Monte Carlo last week, were won by French media companies.

Sportal, the sports online business, has signed as exclusive Internet partner of Spanish soccer giants Real Madrid in a deal which will see Real promote the Sportal brand off-line.

The Sydney 2000 Olympics are in danger of becoming the