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The magistrate investigating the Tour de France doping scandal has cleared France's two leading cycling officials of all charges in the case.

Turin have beaten the Swiss favourites Sion to host the 2006 Winter Games in the first selection of a host city since the Salt Lake City bribery scandal.

SportsLine USA, the leading global Internet sports content, community and e-commerce company, has announced the promotions of four of its senior executives.

The 2000 ATP World Championships will be staged in Lisbon, Portugal, with the following year?s event moving to Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The IOC says it has no plans to move its headquarters - despite angry reactions from locals after it snubbed Switzerland's bid to host the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Rugby union side London Irish has confirmed it will merge with London Scottish and Richmond to form a new super club in South West-London.

A three-day meeting of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) in Nassau, Bahamas, has reviewed the impact of the lockout that threatened the cancellation of the entire 1998-9 season.

The chairman of health club group Champneys has joined the board of directors at English Premier League soccer club Newcastle United.

Athletics Canada says it is going to court in an effort to throw out an arbitrator's decision allowing banned sprinter Ben Johnson to seek reinstatement.

News that Jacksonville Jaguars' owner Wayne Weaver and Cleveland Browns' owner Alfred Lerner have filed applications to purchase Arena Football League(AFL) teams could have important implications for Orlando Predators Entertainment (OPE).

A leading sport legal expert says he is surprised that the UK Restrictive Practices Court has ruled entirely in favour of the English Premier League's sale of soccer rights.

Britain's antitrust boss has warned English soccer's Premier League that future TV deals with broadcasters could fall foul of tough new competition laws unless big changes are made to new contracts.

Clothing company Canterbury International has signed a five-year licence and sponsorship deal with the Australian Rugby Union and the Wallabies.

British pay-TV company BSkyB Plc is in talks to buy a 9.9 percent state in Chelsea Village Plc, owners of the Chelsea premiership football team, as part of a new drive to build up an investment portfolio of leading British football clubs, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

Real Madrid soccer club president Lorenzo Sanz will meet FIFA president Sepp Blatter in Zurich on Sunday to demand that Europe's top clubs get a share of television rights and sponsorship from players' international appearances.

Dibb Lupton Alsop, Yorkshire?s largest law firm, has formed a new Sports Group, specifically to advise companies in the sports sector.