Athletics: The Athletics Association of Ireland (AAI) have announced their managerial appointments for the four major international events between now and the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, reports Johnny Watterson.
Michael Quinlan will manage the Olympic team in four years, while the team for the World Track and Field event scheduled for Paris in 2003 will be managed by Michael McKeon. Patsy McGonagle will be the manager for the European Championships at Munich in 2002, while the manager for next summer's World Championships in Edmonton, Canada, will be Paddy Marley.
Olympics: A former senior 2004 Athens Games official has accused the organising committee (ATHOC) of cultivating "virtual reality instead of substance and essence" and its president Gianna Angelopoulos of inertia.
Former ATHOC board member Costas Liaskas, who was fired by Prime Minister Costas Simitis in October for publicly bickering with a government minister, said the committee's number two had resigned 24 hours earlier because his role was only "on paper".
Boxing: Heavyweight Andrew Golota, widely reviled for quitting against Mike Tyson in October, is expected this week to agree to a 10 per cent reduction in his $2 million purse from Showtime, the pay-per-view broadcaster of the bout.
A source close to the negotiations said Golota was forced to take the pay cut because Showtime thought Golota, who quit after the second round, had violated the part of his contract that called for a "good faith" effort.
