During press conference with Sports Minister Danuta Dmowska-Andrzejuk, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki gave the green light to PKO Bank Polski Ekstraklasa football players comeback to the pitch. Now, they can resume trainings on the football grounds in line with the football games resumption schedule approved by the Polish government. The plan was developed by the crisis management team appointed by the Management Board of Ekstraklasa upon consultation with the Polish Football Association.

Navigating winter terrain is one of many challenges that ski mountaineering (skimo) athletes face as they maneuver through a series of checkpoints while climbing a mountain and descending on skis. Most train and compete in hopes of gaining entrance into the coveted Skimo World Cup, a series of five races held across Europe and Asia that are sanctioned by the International Ski Mountaineering Federation (ISMF). Part of this series, the Comapedrosa Andorra challenges participants to scale nearly 5,000 feet in elevation from the base of the Pyrenees mountains to the pinnacle of Comapedrosa. For this year’s two-day event, Andorran Mountaineering Federation (FAM) enlisted local production company Imaginaris to produce live feeds for on-site and remote spectators. Using an array of AJA solutions, Imaginaris brought all of the action to a large LED display located at the resort at the base of the mountain as well as to Facebook Live. 

The international governing body for the sport of amateur wrestling, United World Wrestling (UWW) has selected slomo.tv as its technology partner for video-refereeing in all its matches. Based in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland, UWW includes representatives from 176 national federations and its duties include overseeing wrestling at the Olympics. It presides over international competitions for various forms of wrestling, including Greco-Roman wrestling, freestyle wrestling for men and women, as well as others.

The Future Group, developer of live photo-realistic virtual production system Pixotope™, today announced that it provided the mixed reality platform for WePlay! Esports’ ‘Dota 2 Tug of War: Mad Moon’ tournament, which took place in Kiev, Ukraine, from 19-23 February. WePlay! Esports, which organises tournaments as well as providing online coverage, has the vision to blend competitive esports with entertainment in all-embracing coverage – “esportainment” is the word coined by Oleg Krot, CEO at WePlay! Esports.

Blackmagic Design today announced that international gaming and esports agency, Freaks 4U Gaming, has deployed multiple studios and portable production units (PPU) built around Blackmagic Design. The solution for acquisition, control and delivery, allows the facility to offer native 4K content creation services for broadcast and live streaming.

MAVTV Canada, the destination for all things motorsports, has once again partnered with custom end-to-end video broadcast solutions provider Nextologies Limited to provide complex live remote production and transmission services for the Ricmotech Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires iRacing eSeries.

The lucrative business of sports broadcasting and media rights has taken an extended time-out. Amikam Kranz, vice president of media sales and operations at Infront Sports & Media, hopes the sports world will kick off again in May or June. “As soon as there is live content again—on TV, on platforms—people will be happy to re-subscribe if they’ve canceled their subscriptions or will just be happy to watch again,” he says. “And for us, it will mean coming back to our daily bread and butter.”

Infront, a Wanda Sports Group company and the eSerie A TIM's exclusive media, marketing and digital partner, will deliver the first pre-season esports tournament for the Italian football league's top clubs on Wednesday 1 April.

Deltatre, a global leader in fan-first video experiences, today announced the launch of its new SaaS-based solution, mtribes. The tool enables any media operator running a multi-angle platform digital or OTT service to quickly identify user groups and their behaviors, create highly personalized user experiences (UX) and measure the effectiveness of personalization through real time insights. On average it takes less than 15 minutes to integrate mtribes into website and apps already live in the market.

 Infront, a Wanda Sports Group company, today announced it has appointed André Fläckel to head up its gaming and esports department and drive the development of the company’s strategy in this key growth area worldwide. Fläckel, who joins Infront on April 1 from Lagardère Sports where he co-founded the esports department, will report to Christian Müller, Infront’s Senior Vice President People, Innovation & Corporate Services.

Paraglider Horacio Llorens became part of a flock of starlings to embrace his dream of flying like a bird. The Spaniard travelled to Denmark to witness the natural phenomenon of Black Sun, created as tens of thousands of starlings gather in the sky at one time there as a biannual event. The five-time aerobatic paragliding world champion, who took up the sport in 2000, admits it was a journey into the unknown, unsure how the birds would react and hopeful they would not become entangled in his lines.

Five times, Eduard Nikolaev has stood on the top step of the podium but never before has he got airborne like this. The fearless Russian driver took his truck into the Transpolar region of Murmansk to give the Continental 14.00 R20 164/160K HC tyres a rigorous workout in a totally new format.

Steel Lafferty is well known for breaking new ground in the wakeboarding world and his new project tackling the stunning Siete Tazas (Seven Cups) rock formation in Chile is no different. Here is all you need to know.

Professional slackliner Alex Mason defied the laws of gravity to perform a captivating tightrope walk off the coast of Beirut. Here is all you need to know:

Pagès is a multiple Red Bull X-Fighters champion as well as an X Games gold medallist and he brought his full repertoire to a secret location for his latest project. Just 20cm apart from man and flying machine, Pagès unleashed his usual array of flicks, tricks and turns on a man-made course, with compatriot Panaiva’s custom-built drone completely in tandem.