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Olympic leaders brought the expansion of the Summer Games to a halt when they decided not to add new sports to the programme for the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
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Soccer's world governing body FIFA said on Sunday it was open to the idea of sponsors names on national team shirts but insisted they would not be allowed at the 2002 World Cup. FIFA president Sepp Blatter said the association's executive had discussed the idea at an end-of-year meeting in Rome but wanted to examine it further before making a decision.
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Mark Bingham, currently senior vice president of marketing and broadcasting at the New York Mets has been appointed as president of Octagon's US marketing division.
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America's Cup holders, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, accepted the Swiss challenge for yachting's biggest prize on Monday after a month of legal wrangling.
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Media reports in the UK suggest the redevelopment of Wembley Stadium has hit a major funding crisis which threatens the entire project.
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The race to secure the terrestrial and interactive media to rights to UK horse racing is close to being won by Go Racing, the consortium made up of Channel 4, BSkyB and Arena Leisure.
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An Italian first division match between Reggina and Brescia was suspended and then abandoned on Sunday after home fans threw flares, staves, fruit and plastic water bottles on to the pitch.
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International Olympic Committee communications director Franklin Servan-Schreiber, the voice of the IOC during the Olympic movement's recent crisis and reforms, resigned on Wednesday.
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Former boxing heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has been granted permission to fight again in lucrative Las Vegas.
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AIM-listed sports media advisory firm Media Content is to open a new office in Hong Kong.
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Sri Lanka's scandal-tainted cricket board has suspended its chief executive amid reports of a multi-million dollar television rights dispute.
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FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his UEFA counterpart Lennart Johansson said on Monday they were delighted with the support of British Prime Minister Tony Blair in their fight for a better deal with the European Commission over a new soccer transfer system.
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The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has awarded a major new contract to BT Broadcast Services to provide transmission services covering a number of Europe's top sporting events.
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Welsh rugby has landed a new sponsorship deal with British telecommunications firm Redstone Telecom plc. The four year deal means that the Redstone logo will appear on the red shirts of all Welsh international sides, including the A team and Sevens teams.
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Sportel exhibitors, Kingston MediaSTream, the international satellite and broadcast arm of the Kingston Communications Group, has won two major international contracts.
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Francis Baron, chief executive of the English Rugby Union, aims to make England the number one rugby nation in the world as part of the unions soon to be announced 8-year Strategic Plan.
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Australian Olympic champion Cathy Freeman is being sued by her ex-fiance for breach of contract after sacking him as her manager before the Sydney Olympics, the Australian media has reported.
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A US judge has ruled that a media company producing real-time golf scoring will not be allowed to sell the scores to other media, pending the outcome of its antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour.