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The International Olympic Committee's incumbent president Jacques Rogge has been voted in for a second term, until 2013.

The chairman of the England bid to host the football World Cup in 2018 has said the event would benefit the country’s economy by at least $5 billion.

Football business convention organisers Soccerex and football consultancy Football Asia have joined forces to launch a new two-day business event beginning in 2010, the Soccerex Asian Forum.

A lawsuit filed this week claims that restrictions on advertising and leafleting introduced for next year’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver violate free speech rights.

The US Olympic Committee (USOC) has said it will hire a recruiting firm to identify candidates for the post of Chief Executive in the wake of the failure of the Chicago bid to host the 2016 Olympics.

The National Basketball Association is to add between 10 and 50 employees in countries including China and India, the league’s commissioner David Stern has said, speaking at a pre-season exhibition game in London.

Sven-Goran Eriksson, David Dein and Gérard Houllier will take part in a session at the Soccerex 2009 convention discussing major issues facing football, including player and club ownership.

The mayors of Italian cities Rome and Venice have announced they both want to bid to host the 2020 Olympics.

The organisers of the Australian Open tennis tournament have increased its prize money by 4.1 per cent.

The team bidding to take the 2022 World Cup to Qatar has launched a new website and brand design, and renewed calls for the first Middle Eastern World Cup.

The organisers of the Leaders in Football conference say there will be over 100 international media organisations present at this year’s event, which takes place tomorrow and Wednesday at Chelsea FC, London.

Carlos Nuzman will head the organising committee for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after successfully leading the city’s bid team, which was awarded hosting rights for the event on Friday.

The head of the Commonwealth Games Federation has urged the organisers of next year’s Games in New Delhi to hire foreign experts to complete behind-schedule preparations for the event.

The 2016 Olympic Games will be held in Rio de Janeiro the International Olympic Committee announced after a bidding race that IMG’s David Abrutyn says was the closest in history.

Ahead of this afternoon’s announcement by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as to who will host the 2016 Summer Olympics, SportBusiness analyses each of the bidding cities' chances.

Ari Vatanen will “lose badly” in the race to become the next president of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), world motorsport’s governing body, according to incumbent president Max Mosley.