Ryder Cup Europe has invited the countries bidding to host the 2018 event to a symposium in London next month to evaluate their progress.
France, Germany, Holland, Portugal...More>
The International Olympic Committee’s executive board has invited the three cities bidding to host the Youth Olympic Games in 2014 to present their bids to the full IOC member...More>
Sweden and Norway’s joint bid to host the Euro 2016 football championships looks to be over after the countries’ governments declined a request for funding.
Bid officials w...More>
Sydney’s Olympic stadium will be given a A$150m makeover that will include the installation of a retractable glass roof if Australia is awarded the football World Cup in 2018 ...More>
A row is brewing between Australia’s World Cup bid team and three of its most popular domestic sports over access to the country’s biggest stadiums.
Reuters reports that th...More>
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has joined the board of the United States’ World Cup bid.
The bid committee hopes Bloomberg will add further weight to a board that al...More>
A football World Cup in Australia would not have a negative impact on the AFL season, Victoria premier John Brumby has insisted.
The country is bidding to host the 2018 or ...More>
David Beckham has pledged to do all he can to help England win the race to host the 2018 World Cup.
Beckham is in South Africa with Lord Triesman to help promote the bid at...More>
Australia is bringing out the big guns in its bid to host the World Cup in 2018 or 2022, using film star Nicole Kidman in a promotional film that will be shown just before the...More>
Holding the World Cup in England in 2018 would be the most “commercially” attractive option available to Fifa, according to bid chief executive Andy Anson.
Speaking at the ...More>
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who played an integral role in bringing the 2010 World Cup to South Africa, has said he will back Australia’s bid to host the tournament in 2018 or 20...More>
Former World Cup stars Gabriel Batistuta and Ronald de Boer are the latest big names to sign up as ambassadors for Qatar’s bid to host the 2022 tournament.
Batistuta is Arg...More>
England’s 2018 World Cup bid has received a much-needed boost after Fifa vice-president Jack Warner, who had previously criticised the campaign, said it was “England’s time” t...More>
Lord Coe says London’s 2012 Olympic Stadium could be used to spearhead a bid for the world athletics championships in 2015.
The venue could also stage a match in the 2018 f...More>
Former Birmingham City managing director Karren Brady has admitted that England’s 2018 World Cup bid has been hampered by “bickering, infighting and disruption”.
Brady, who...More>
Indian sports minister MS Gill says he does not think the country should bid for the Olympics even if next year’s Commonwealth Games are a success.
Gill was responding to ...More>
England’s World Cup bid team will today (November 26) hear pitches from the 15 cities hoping to host matches at the 2018 tournament.
The committee will narrow the list down...More>
