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Sporting events across Europe are under threat as fears about the foot-and-mouth outbreak in Britain spread to the continent.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder urged the Kirch Group on Wednesday to resume talks with public broadcasters to ensure that the 2002 and 2006 soccer World Cups can be seen on free television in Germany.
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Singapore's multi-million dollar sports industry can double its market value to S$1.4 billion by 2010 according to a recent report.
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Spanish pay-TV firm Sogecable has signed a 3.25 billion-peseta ($17.80 m) deal to market soccer club Real Madrid's image, gaining access to its internet, merchandising and franchising business.
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Coca-Cola has emerged as the favourite to become the next title sponsor of English soccer?s Premier League after rivals Pepsi pulled out of the bidding.
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An International Olympic Committee (IOC) inspection team for the Athens 2004 Games will take a hard look at security when they visit Greece later this week.
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Cricket web site, CricInfo.com, and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) have signed an agreement making CricInfo the exclusive host of the official Pakistan web site for the next five years.
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German media giant Kirch, holders of the European broadcast rights to the FIFA World Cup 2002 and 2006, will auction the rights in separate packages to both pay-TV and free-TV broadcasters in the UK.
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Greece has launched its Olympic volunteer programme, appealing for 60,000 people to help make the troubled 2004 Athens Games a success.
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Peter Casey has been named as the new vice president of the minor league hockey team Philadelphia Phantoms, owned by Comcast-Spetacor in the US.
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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.
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Quokka Sports is set to report a net loss of around $20m in its fourth quarter results.
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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.
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UK photo agency Action Images has reported a 47 per cent increase in sports assignments for 2000.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.