With some 7000 athletes from 71 countries competing for 826 medals in the 2010 Commonwealth Games, first time hosts India promised to deliver a world class Games amidst a wide array of environmental and political challenges.

The construction work at the Kandahar race track is getting up to speed. For the first race of the World Championships, the Ladies' Super G on February 8th, all preparations are exactly on schedule. A helicopter has now brought all the platforms for the cameras and trainers to the track.

For the first time in 59 years of existence the Four Hills Tournament presents an own brand identity. Infront Sports & Media, the tournament`s new marketing partner, not only developed a new logo for the Four Hills Tournament but also a completely new, comprehensive concept for all four component events in Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen. In the past the tournament`s appearance was always visually characterized by the so-called title sponsor.

570 days before the start of UEFA EURO 2012, the cloud of secrecy surrounding the official mascot was today lifted at a special ceremony at the Polish Theatre in Warsaw. After Trix and Flix in Austria and Switzerland in 2008, Europe’s next festival of football will have a new duo to bring it luck. Dressed in red/white and yellow/blue football strips, the dynamic twins wear the national colours of the two host countries, Poland and Ukraine.

The most spectacular artistic roller skating contest hosted in Italy, December the 8th in Modena. Among the stars the 14 times World Champion Tanja Romano. To make the event unique the music performed live by Paolo Belli and his Big Band.

In October 2010, the Rip Curl Pro Search Portugal took place from the 7th to the 18th of October in Peniche.For this competition, wTVision together with MEDIAPRO, provided a simultaneous production to MEO, Portuguese TV Cable Network, RIP Curl and ASP (Association of Surfing Professionals).

Marseille dragged themselves back into contention to reach the knockout phase of the Champions League with an emphatic 7-0 victory over Slovakian champions MSK Zilina.Andre-Pierre Gignac netted a hat-trick, with Lucho Gonzalez adding a brace and Gabriel Heinze and Loic Remy also on target for Didier Deschamps' men, who drew level on six points with Spartak Moscow by securing their fifth win in a row in all competitions.

UEFA has announced that it has concluded a number of media rights deals for UEFA EURO 2012 and 2016 sales outside of Europe. These agreements reaffirm the UEFA European Football Championship as a compelling global property with significant interest and viewership outside of Europe. They further reflect UEFA’s continued long-term strategy to achieve the best possible media platform in individual markets by dealing directly with local broadcasters or, if and when appropriate, by using sports marketing agencies. The deals also include media rights for the 2011 and 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship as well as for the UEFA Women’s EURO 2013.

To set up the Parc des Princes stadium’s giant screens production management system and create a Web TV, CAP TV relies on the products and software offered by Visualdis, NewTek official distributor in France. The challenge: to set up a powerful yet affordable production system, simple enough to be used by one person or a small team while ensuring high-quality sport broadcast transmission and dynamic in-venue display management.

Guangzhou Asian Games Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (GAB), the 2010 Asian Games host broadcaster will use EVS systems for its live operations, including multi-camera recording, live replays and highlight editing at various venues of the event. Production teams, including 22 Chinese TV stations, will use a total of 130 EVS SD/HD servers and their live production controllers to cover the Games, which will be held in Guangzhou, China, from November 12 to 27, 2010.

EVS Instant Tapeless Technology was selected by Doordarshan Prasar Bharati Corporation (the host broadcaster) for operations involving recording, instant replay and editing, media storage and exchange and playout at the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi from October 3 to 14, 2010. EVS offered an innovative workflow solution that combined advanced production networking with complete control of live broadcast actions, managing a total of over 120 EVS production servers and their various software controllers.

Arqiva, on behalf of Arts Alliance Media, has provided Outside Broadcasts and satellite services for a live cinema event ‘Chasing Legends’. This film tells the story of Mark Cavendish’s 2009 Tour de France bid, and its UK premiere was followed by a live Q&A session at Cineworld The O2. This was filmed, uplinked and distributed by Arqiva to 52 UK cinemas.

Clay Paky was a star performer at the recent opening and closing ceremonies of the 19th Commonwealth Games, broadcast live from Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in New Delhi, India. Despite highly publicised concerns about the quality of accommodation in the Athletes' Village and unfinished building works in and around the stadium, the Games managed to go on as planned and the ceremonies were considered an enormous success.

RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST), a leading provider of comprehensive content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industries, is working with Sm2 Sports Media Solutions, LLC, and their teleport partner TV2GO in Canada, to deliver live HD sporting events worldwide in MPEG-4, including the US Open, the PGA Championship and for the first time globally, the 2010 NFL season.

Bringing together more than 50 nations from around the world, the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India opened its 12-day athletic competition with a large, multi-array JBL VerTecâ line array system powered by Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers to support the opening ceremonies. The system successfully filled the Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, occupied by more than 60,000 spectators and nearly 5,000 athletes. Audio production companies Norwest Productions (Australia) and Sound.com (India) collaborated to implement Auditoria’s sophisticated event system design in the field.