Infront And FloSports Link Up In Wide-Ranging, Multi-Year Deal Highlighted By Complete Flanders Classics Cycling Event Series Plus Additional UCI WorldTour Races Including The Amstel Gold Race, Tour de Suisse and Tour de Pologne
Partnership To Bring Over 100 Hours Of Additional Premier Cycling Sports Programming To FloSports
AUSTIN, Texas (March 16, 2021) – The prestigious cycling event series, Flanders Classics, will be exclusively streamed in North America by FloSports. In a wide-ranging deal announced today between Infront, a global sports events, media and production company, and FloSports, an innovator in sports streaming and original content, FloSports will have exclusive North American broadcast rights to the highly-anticipated Flanders Classics for the next four years (2021 – 2024) as well as other world class UCI WorldTour cycling events including the Amstel Gold Race, Tour de Suisse and Tour de Pologne. The deal represents significant ongoing investments by FloSports into the sport of cycling allowing for wider distribution of prestigious races to global audiences through FloSports’ award-winning digital platform. Select Flanders Classics races and other cycling events included in the Infront deal will also be exclusively streamed by FloSports in Australia. A full list of event details included in this partnership is outlined below.
The Flanders Classics and the three UCI WorldTour races adds to FloSports cycling programming that already includes the Tour de France (exclusively in Canada only), and the UCI World Championships including Road, Cyclo-Cross, Track Cycling, BMX, Mountain Bike and Urban Cycling along with the Telenet UCI Cyclo-Cross World Cup and the new UCI Cycling Esports World Championships.
Other live programming available on FloBikes include WorldTour races such as the Tour Down Under, Paris-Nice, Paris-Roubaix, Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne, Women’s WorldTours including La Course by Le Tour de France and Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta as well as Asian/European Tours such as the Tour of Oman, Tour de Hongrie and Paris-Tours. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the global cycling event schedule, FloBikes has experienced an incredibly successful 2020 cycling season with average event viewership up 352% over 2019 and a year-over-year subscriber growth increase of over 122%.
“FloSports has vast experience bringing the very best events to sports fans across both North America and Australia,” says Amikam Kranz, Vice President Media Sales and Operations. This broad agreement ensures cycling, athletics and triathlon supporters from both regions have access to some of the best action in the world and we are delighted to be working alongside FloSports.”
“FloSports’ partnership with Infront represents our ongoing commitment to the investment in global sports like cycling and track & field,” says Ryan Fenton, Director, Global Rights Acquisition, FloSports. “We look forward to collaborating with the Infront team to bring these world class events to fans throughout North America and Australia.”
FLANDERS CLASSICS
*exclusively on FloSports in North America and Australia from 2021-2024
**exclusively on FloSports in North America and co-exclusive with SBS in Australia from 2021-2024
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad*
Gent-Wevelgem**
Dwars door Vlaanderen*
Tour of Flanders**
Scheldeprijs*
De Brabantse Pijl*
UCI WORLD TOUR EVENTS
Amstel Gold Race**
Tour de Suisse*
Tour de Pologne*
As part of the Infront deal, FloSports will also carry dozens of renowned track & field and triathlon competitions each year including the World Athletics Indoor Tour (exclusively in North America & Australia from 2021-2023), World Athletics Continental Tour (exclusively in North America & Australia from 2020-2023) as well as the World Triathlon Championship Series (co-exclusive with World Triathlon in US only from 2021-2024).
To access live and on-demand coverage of these events, visit FloSports to become an annual PRO subscriber. The annual subscription unlocks access to premium content and live events across the entire FloSports network. Watch the events across all screens by downloading the FloSports app on Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Apple TV, the App Store, and Google Play Store.
About FloSports
Founded in 2006, FloSports is a venture-backed subscription video streaming service dedicated to sports, offering live and on-demand access to hundreds of thousands of competition events across 25+ vertical sport categories in the US and abroad. FloSports’ vision is to give underserved sports the love they deserve. With a growing library of more than 300,000 hours of premium content including news, expert commentary, films, documentaries and more, FloSports has established itself as an innovator and leader in sports streaming. Finally, your sport has a home. For more information, please visit: flosports.tv.
About Infront
Connecting fans and consumers to the greatest sports events, Infront offers everything an event or commercial partner needs to be successful. With a team of over 1,000 experts working from 45 offices across more than 16 countries around the world, Infront is equipped to tackle any challenge – be it innovative digital solutions, world-class event operations, international media rights distribution, sponsorship sales and activations or cutting-edge media production. Headquartered in Switzerland, Infront is passionate and #AllAboutSports. @infrontsports www.infront.sport