David Ginola and Stéphane Diagana have become the latest high-profile former sportsmen to back Annecy’s bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Ex-footballer Ginola said...More>
Fifa has awarded the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar.
Russia, which will host the event for the first time, beat England, Spain/Portugal and Holla...More>
England's 2018 bid has come out top of a Fifa study assessing the economic value of a World Cup in all bidding countries to the game's governing body.
England's bid scored ...More>
Pyeongchang 2018 has signed a sponsorship deal with the Lotte Group, one of the biggest confectionary manufacturers in Asia.
The company, which has a portfolio of more than...More>
Pmplegacy, part of the sports marketing division of Chime Communications, has been appointed as lead adviser and project manager by the Hambantota 2018 Commonwealth Games bid....More>
BBC’s Panorama programme has accused three Fifa executive committee members of taking bribes in the past.
The three are all part of the 22-man committee that will vote on ...More>
India should not be allowed to bid for the Olympics because it has failed to pay millions of dollars to foreign firms involved in last month's Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
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Guangzhou has no plans to bid for the Olympics despite the success of the Asian Games, which finished at the weekend.
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogg...More>
Fifa is under investigation from the Swiss federal authorities over the cash-for-World-Cup-votes scandal, with the inquiry possibly leading to criminal charges.
Six senior ...More>
The Wimbledon Championships will not be moved to avoid a possible clash with England’s bid to stage the 2018 football World Cup, an All England Club spokesman has said.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron had admitted he is “frustrated” by the timing of Panorama’s investigation into Fifa – but believes it will not affect England's 2018 World...More>
British Basketball is to carry out a feasibility study into the possibility of hosting the men's European Championships.
Both the 2015 and 2017 events will be considered, ...More>
Lord Coe has insisted that England's World Cup bid team can overcome any negative impact from the Panorama expose of Fifa and land the 2018 tournament at next week's vote.
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International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) general secretary Pierre Weiss has suggested that London's bid to host the 2017 World Championships could be damaged ...More>
Spain and Portugal's 2018 World Cup hopes have been boosted by the news that South America's Conmebol federation has come out in support of the joint Iberian bid.
"The 10 c...More>
The head of Spain/Portugal's 2018 bid has claimed it already has as many as eight of the 22 Fifa votes in the bag.
The Iberian countries are up against England, Russia and ...More>
England 2018 international president David Dein says the bid team needs the country behind it ahead of the December 2 World Cup vote.
England fears there could be a backlas...More>
