With just 12 days to go, the Gold Coast Airport Marathon has already broken last year’s record of 13,814 entries, Queensland Premier Peter Beattie announced today.

Monte Carlo - The IAAF World Television Seminar, which is planned to take place in the Hotel Athenaem Intercontinental (89-93 Syngrou Avenue, Athens) on 29-30 March, will be a 'unique' opportunity for TV opinion makers, to discuss the present and future of broadcasting for the Number 1 Olympic sport, according to IAAF President Lamine Diack.

IAAF Council agreed that both Olympic Shot Put events will take place in Olympia, either on 18 or 19 August 2004, with both medal ceremonies taking place on 20 August in the Athens Olympic Stadium.

Athens 2004 volunteer applications have topped the magic figure of 61,000, and now stand at 61,018, just thirteen months after applications were first officially called for by the Organising Committee.

Athletics Management & Services GmbH (AMS) announced today that it has been appointed by Dentsu Inc., Japan’s largest advertising agency, to manage the television broadcast rights for the IAAF Golden League comprising the international athletics meetings in Zurich, Brussels, Oslo, Berlin, Rome, and Paris.

MONACO - Monte-Carlo - On 21 September 2001, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) entered into an agreement with Dentsu Inc. (President: Yutaka Narita; Head Office: Tokyo; Capital: US $463.15 million [US $1 = Yen 118.6] to be the exclusive worldwide partner responsible for the commercial exploitation of marketing.

Octagon has been appointed by the Asian Amateur Athletic Association (AAAA) as its exclusive marketing agency for AAAA events from January 2002.