SEOUL, June 14 (Xinhuanet) -- The official website of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the most successful sports-event website ever, is renewing the record of page views day by day, with more than 800 million page views collected so far since the May 31 start of the tournament, a FIFA marketing official said Friday.

　　"I am very happy and relieved that I can say it is already in the middle of the tournament, and it is the most successful sports-event website ever. We have collected more than 800 million page impressions since the start of the tournament," said Stefan Schuster.

　　He added that the website has more than 1 billion page views since the launch of the site for the final draw in December.

　　The number of hits outstrips the previous record for page viewson sports websites by the Salt Lake City Olympic Games, when nbcolympics.com and olympics.com combined to set the benchmark with 350 million page views in four weeks. Enditem