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By STEPHEN WILSON AP Sports Writer

LONDON(AP)—The world’s largest consumer products company signed on as a global Olympic sponsor Wednesday, the second multi-million-dollar marketing deal this month for the International Olympic Committee.

IOC president Jacques Rogge unveiled the 10-year agreement with American-based giant Procter & Gamble Co. at a news conference in London.

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP)—Former women’s world champion Erin Hamlin and three-time Olympian Tony Benshoof are among 14 athletes who will be part of USA Luge’s season-opening training camp starting Friday.

It’ll be the first camp overseen by five-time Olympian Mark Grimmette, who retired from sliding a month after the Vancouver Games and is now USA Luge’s sport program manager.

By Julian Linden

NEW YORK, July 16 (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) signed a new global sponsor Friday but a fragile economic climate has delayed the start of negotiations for the U.S. television rights for the 2014 and 2016 Games.

IOC president Jacques Rogge told Reuters in an interview that the negotiations could be put off until after the 2012 Olympics in London because of the uncertainty of the American economy.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP)—British Columbia says it spent $895 million to host the Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Games.

That’s $155 million more than the official Olympic budget of $740 million.

The release Friday of the new number is the first time the province has acknowledged that expenses such as pavilions at the 2006 Turin and 2008 Beijing Olympics were part of the costs that British Columbia paid to host to the world.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP)—Sports federations need to join the fight against game-fixing and other betting scams if they want to be part of the Olympics, IOC president Jacques Rogge said Thursday.

Three years ago, the International Olympic Committee asked sports bodies, betting companies and law enforcement agencies to settle on a plan to combat betting fraud. So far the proposed measures have been voluntary and each federation can decide how to implement them.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP)—The International Olympic Committee is holding off negotiating the next round of U.S. television rights and could delay the high-stakes bidding again until next year because of the fragile state of the American economy and weakness in the advertising market.

Richard Carrion, the IOC official who handles the TV negotiations, said in an interview with The Associated Press that the unfavorable financial climate makes it unwise to seek a deal now with U.S. broadcasters for the 2014 and 2016 games.

Canada's ski cross racers will have new teammates this season.

Alpine Canada announced on Monday that the ski cross racers will now be under the same umbrella as the alpine racers, which will result in shared use of facilities, technical expertise along with other resources.

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VANCOUVER '€” Heather Moyse is discovering it's not that easy to shift seamlessly from the elite level of one sport to another without hitting some transitional speed bumps along the way.

The gold medallist in the two-women bobsleigh in the February Winter Olympics, the 31-year-old is attempting to restart the promising rugby career she left behind two years ago to chase her dream of gold at the Vancouver Games.