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The FA board is expected to approve the structure of a bid company to try to secure the 2018 World Cup for England.

The world’s winter athletes can expect a ‘tremendous experience’ when they compete at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, according to Jean-Claude Killy, head of the IOC Co-ordination Commission making its first visit to the Black Sea resort.

The International Rugby Board are likely to announce the next two venues for the Rugby World Cup simultaneously, breaking with their normal practice of announcing them one at a time, in order to make it easier for ‘smaller’ rugby nations to host the event.

The 2014 Winter Olympic Games, to be staged in Sochi, have been described as ‘probably the most challenging ever’ in terms of facilities yet to be built.

The ‘Earth’ golf course in Dubai, designed by Greg Norman, is to host the world’s richest golf tournament, the Dubai World Championship, which has a prize fund of $10 million.

The British government’s estimates of the cost of hosting the 2012 Olympics were ‘entirely unrealistic’ according to the body which oversees government expenditure.

The first International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission visit to Sochi, the 2014 host city of the Winter Olympics, will start tomorrow.

Juventus Football Club has announced details of its off-season tour of South East Asia and Australia.

Media agencies around the world stuck to their threat to boycott coverage of Twenty20 cricket’s Indian Premier League, which got underway last Friday.

Sochi Mayor Viktor Kolodyazhny will now head up the state agency responsible for Olympic construction, Olympstroy, after replacing Semen Vainshtok.

Prague’s bid for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games suffered a setback on Tuesday after it received less than half of the funding it originally requested.

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has confirmed the venue for the canoe/kayak slalom events during London 2012.

Texan billionaire, Allen Stanford, is set to offer the England and Wales Cricket Board $20 million for a one-off Twenty20 match against a West Indies all-star side during England’s tour early next year.

Fulford PR added the Volvo Ocean Race to its sports PR portfolio in a deal with the organisers of the 4th leg of the world’s most challenging yacht race, ONE15 Singapore Ocean Race Pte Ltd.

Powerboat P1 has confirmed Vigo as the venue for the first ever Powerboat P1 Grand Prix to be staged in Spain.

Sochi 2014, the Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, has appointed Weber Shandwick to support the development and implementation of its international communications strategy in 2008.