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Forbes magazine suggests that Tiger Woods is on target to become the first person to accumulate $1 billion through sporting prowess alone.

The 2012 Olympic Games will generate over four billion dollars in tourism for the UK, according to research by Oxford Economics.
Media

Olympic broadcasters will be able to report live from Tiananmen Square, but only for six hours a day, according to reports from Beijing.
Media

US broadcaster Turner Sports and Yahoo agreed a new partnership that will see Turner provide video and text content to Yahoo’s online NBA, golf and NASCAR channels.
Media

SportsXchange, a new UK and Ireland free-to-air sports news and betting TV channel will launch in late July, focused on horseracing, football, cricket, rugby and other sports.
Media

Infront Sports & Media secured an exclusive, long-term media rights agreement for the EHF European Championship in handball with three leading Scandinavian broadcasters, TV2 Denmark, TV2 Norway and TV4 Sweden.
Business

The popular image of the US as a reckless polluter is challenged in a new report from SportBusiness Group. The report, entitled Sustainable Sport, claims that in fact US sport is much more environmentally aware and active than its European counterparts.
Media

The African Union of Broadcasting (AUB) and the South African Broadcasting Corporation acquired the broadcast rights for 37 territories in sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa) for the 2008 Olympic Games from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Stadia

The Vancouver Organising Committee for the 2010 Olympic Games (VANOC) said the UBC Thunderbird Arena is the first indoor competition venue in the Host Region to complete construction. The venue will host the men’s and women’s ice hockey, as well as the men’s ice sledge hockey competitions during the 2010 Winter Games.
Media

UK public-service broadcaster, the BBC, extended its deal with Dorna Sports SL, the commercial rights holder of MotoGP for five years until 2013.
Media

American agency CAA Sports and Portuguese agency Gestifute formed a new partnership around their football talent businesses.

The NBA, one of the most successful sports marketing organisations in the world, will address senior executives at Leaders in Football with Scott O’Neill, Senior VP of Sales and Marketing flying in to deliver a keynote presentation.
Events

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will remain directly involved in the preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi according to the local organising committee.
Events

The International Rugby Board, owner of Rugby World Cup, said it will allocate the next two tournaments - Rugby World Cup 2015 and 2019 - at the same time in 2009 and will commence the tender process this month.
Media

American network NBC will show more hours of coverage of the Beijing Olympics than of all previous summer Olympics combined – an average of 212 hours per day across 12 different platforms.

Dr Ichiro Kono, Chairman and CEO of TOKYO 2016 said that Japanese support for hosting the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games is currently over 70 per cent and rising every day.
Business

Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation (PVH) brand IZOD has been named official apparel of the IndyCar and Firestone Indy Lights motor-racing series’, and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Media

The International Softball Federation and the Back Softball campaign became part of one of the largest online social networking sites, Facebook in a bid to broaden the sport’s global footprint.
Events

European football’s governing body, UEFA, is considering changing the name of its UEFA Cup competition to the UEFA Europa League, according to news reports.
Events

Valentina Matviyenko, Governor of St Petersburg, said in a radio interview that St Petersburg will bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics. St Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city, bid for the 2004 Olympics but failed to be selected as one of the five candidate cities.