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Paul Hawkins, managing director of Hawk-Eye Innovations, said yesterday his company would install its goal-line technology in every Premier League ground free of charge as long as it could sell sponsorship around the system.
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The Japanese wrestling sport of Sumo lost a third tournament sponsor as its governing authority attempts to stem the fallout of a betting scandal. Earlier this month wrestlers admitted to illegal gambling on baseball matches, mahjong and card games.
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The Unites States-Ghana round of 16 match at the FIFA World Cup in South Africa was the most-watched soccer game ever in the US, according to Nielsen.
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The ISAF World Match Racing Tour has signed a three-year deal with Sail Racing for the Swedish apparel manufacturer to provide branded team clothing on the Tour. The deal starts from the Stena Match Cup Sweden on July 5.
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The senior management team to lead the 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games is now in place and operating, Ian Troop, CEO of Toronto 2015, announced yesterday.
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The MP & Silva will undertake the marketing and internationalisation of Liga Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto (ACB) – Spain’s top professional basketball league – from 2010-11 following a long-term partnership with the ACB. The agency will also exclusively manage the distribute the league’s global media rights.
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The US Olympic Committee says it intends to maintain its partnership with BP, the third largest energy company in the world, providing it can find "as quick a solution as possible" to the crisis in the Gulf.
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Football's world governing body FIFA is under pressure again to introduce goalline video technology after Frank Lampard's shot was deemed not to be a goal despite hitting the ground at least a foot over the line in England's 4-1 World Cup defeat to Germany yesterday.
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Danny Jordaan, chief executive of the 2010 World Cup organising committee, has accused committee chairman Irvin Khoza of a “malicious” campaign against him.
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The £165 million planned extension of the ExCeL exhibition and convention centre, venue for seven Olympic and six Paralympic events at the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, has been officially inaugurated at a special ceremony over the weekend.
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The 25th anniversary of the Olympic Movement's global sponsorship program, known as TOP (The Olympic Partners), was celebrated with a reception in Lausanne for guests from around the world who helped create the original programme.
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The SportAccord Convention, the annual world summit of sport attended by representatives from around 100 international sports federations, will be held in the city of Quebec in 2012.
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FINA, the international swimming federation, will provide insight into how cities can work more effectively with their national federations to host FINA Championship events during the first FINA World Aquatics Convention from September 27 to 29 this year. The Convention takes place at the Conrad Resort in Punta del Este, Uruguay.
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The Mayor of London has called for the marathon and triathlon events at the 2012 Olympics to be moved to weekends, from midweek under the current schedule.
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A US court has ruled in favour of Google's video-sharing website YouTube in a copyright infringement case to which the English Premier League had been added as a claimant.
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Car manufacturer BMW has extended its sponsorship of the Ryder Cup to cover the 2010, 2012 and 2014 events.
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US F1 has been fined €309,000 and banned from participating in any Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile championship after failing to start the 2010 Formula One season.
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A crowd of 30,000 attended a day of celebrations in Annecy on Wednesday to celebrate the French city being chosen as one of the candidates to host the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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The Ashes cricket match will not be added to the list of events that must be broadcast on free-to-air television in the UK, the sports minister Hugh Robertson has hinted.
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UK-based Olympics fans will only be able to use Visa's payment system to buy tickets for London 2012, and Visa debit and credit cards will be the only ones accepted at shops or cash machines at Olympics venues.
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FIFA will release 5,000 tickets for the first knock-out stage of the World Cup that had been reserved for fans of teams including France and South Africa, following the knocking out of those teams in the first round.
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Italian tyremaker Pirelli will take over from Japan's Bridgestone as Formula One's tyre supplier from next season.
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Sports Turf Research Institute, the company responsible for the pitch at London’s Wembley Stadium, has stepped down after 13 months.
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BMW has been announced as an international sponsor of the Fédération Internationale de Ski (FIS) Cross-Country World Cup, as the event revamps its sponsorship structure.
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Porsche has announced one new partner and a host of extensions of existing sponsorships for its motor-racing business.
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FIFA has decided not to pursue its case in the South African courts against two Dutch women accused of illegal involvement in an ambush marketing campaign.
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Soaring demand is powering an increase in the production of vuvuzela horns at Chinese factories.
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The City of Stockholm has leased the new 30,000-seat Stockholm Arena to international sports and entertainment venue operator AEG Facilities.
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Wine brand Brancott Estate will be an official sponsor of the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
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Sports media agency MP & Silva has opened a new office in Vietnamese capital Hanoi.