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Around 100,000 Barcelona members have voted to find a replacement for out-going club president Josep Lluis Nunez.

Antwerp will stage the 2001 edition of the European short-course swimming championships, the European Swimming League (LEN) has said.

Sports.com has been chosen as the exclusively designated Official Sports Partner of Wimbledon.org for the All England Tennis Club.

UEFA Cup finalists Galatasaray must put their finances on a stronger footing if they want to join the elite of European soccer, coach Fatih Terim has said.

Colin Hutchinson, managing director of cosmopolitan English Premier League club Chelsea, has said that UEFA and FIFA could face a breakaway of leading clubs if they persuaded the European Union to change its stance on the Bosman Ruling.

Europe's top clubs brought their complaints about losing players to international duty to UEFA earlier this week, demanding European soccer's governing body push for a universal calendar that fits their needs.

The president of the Colombian soccer federation (FCF), Fina Alvaro has dclared he has the support from FIFA for a 16-team Copa America in 2001 in Colombia, according to the soccer industry newsletter Soccer Investor Weekly Bulletin.

The administrator in temporary charge of Atletico Madrid appealed for support from fans on Tuesday, insisting the club was in no danger of being wound up. Last week Luis Manuel Rubi was handed control by a high court judge until March 31 after president Jesus Gil and his board were removed from their positions amid an investigation into alleged embezzlement at the Spanish first division club. There had been concerns among Atletico fans that the club could be declared bankrupt or demoted to the third division but Rubi, in his first public comments since taking over, sought to allay those fears on Tuesday. "It's unthinkable that the club should disappear," Rubi told a news conference at the club's Vicente Calderon stadium. "We want the best for this club.

The Dutch government has said on Wednesday it would allow extra flights to land at Schiphol airport for the European Cup Final to be held in Amsterdam next week.

Kenyan steeplechaser Paul Kosgei and an unnamed Romanian woman athlete have had their prize money withheld from two world championship events earlier this year because of a breach of anti-doping rules.

Spanish anti-corruption police raided the offices of Atletico Madrid at the Vicente Calderon stadium on Tuesday night, Spanish state television said.

The bidding process for the right to stage the 2004 European soccer championship moves up a gear this week when UEFA inspectors go to Spain - the first visit to one of the bidding nations.

Barcelona, stung by criticism of their handling of European Cup final ticket arrangements, have said they will put another 4,900 on sale for their fans.

A popular Philippine spectator sport was relaunched recently, 13 years after it was banned following a game-fixing scandal, and hundreds of punters joined the action.

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