Events

The five cities bidding to host the 2008 Summer Olympics have all submitted their official candidature files ahead of the deadline, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Wednesday.

Quokka Sports is set to report a net loss of around $20m in its fourth quarter results.

Staples Center owners, the L.A. Arena Co, are to sell the Great Western Forum - the Los Angeles Lakers' former home ? to a church group in a $22.5million deal.

UK photo agency Action Images has reported a 47 per cent increase in sports assignments for 2000.

WIGE and RTL New Media are to team up to produce an online service package for the forthcoming four-hill ski-jumping tournament and ski-jumping World Cup.

The men's and women's World Cup cross country skiing events scheduled for Seefeld, Austria, on December 17 were called off because of a shortage of snow, the Austrian ski federation said on Wednesday.

Dick Pound, Chairman of IOC Internet Committee confirmed today that the Internet and TV rights for the Olympics will remain linked through to the 2008 games but also expressed the expectation that the territorial rights issues that currently prevent live video and audio broadcast over the internet could be solved.

Stockholm?s Olympic Stadium will host its first speedway meeting for nearly thirty years when the Speedway Grand Prix hits the Swedish capital on Saturday 29 September 2001.

A new sports marketing company, headed by Stephen Pearson, formerly marketing director of TEAM AG and commercial director of the English Premier League, has been launched to develop the market for sports venue naming rights in Europe.

Rivals.com, the online sports content network catering for the dedicated fan, has announced a $500,000 advertising campaign to be broadcast on Fox Sports and Fox Sports Net.

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.

Host Communications is to collaborate with the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics to launch a unique, three-year UK Sports Marketing certification programme in 2001.

IAAF president Lamine Diack has revealed the extent of athletics? growth as a television property - and announced the dates of the major events of the international athletics calendar 2001.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities (IAKS) will jointly organise the IOC/IAKS AWARD for "Exemplary Sports & Leisure Facilities" 2001.

World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc. (WWFE) has signed distribution deals with Bulgarian, Japanese and Russian TV companies in an effort to expand its Asian and Eastern European audiences.

International Management Group president Mark McCormack has criticised the World Golf Championships over the dominance of US golf courses on the four event circuit.