Stories

This event was the culmination of months of collaboration, planning, and hard work from the dedicated team at NEOM and the individual rights holders at the Games: supertri, FIBA3x3, Beach Soccer, Worldwide International Federation of Sport Climbing and World Aquatics.

This event has grown year after year, and it was a real privilege to showcase the high-level competition, elite athletes, first-class hosting facilities, and stunning landscapes NEOM has to offer.

Over the course of November, we covered five different sports from the beach hub and up in the mountain village. This year also featured two concurrent broadcasts, with a total of 67 hours of live programming distributed locally and globally via multiple broadcast and streaming partners.

Working closely with NEOM’s organising committee and rights holders, we were able to drive innovation across cameras and graphics – including a world-first “handhold” camera in climbing, AR, 3D modelling, and tracking graphics. This was all enhanced with stunning drone footage from AZ Films, in each event location.

Huge congratulations to the NEOM Sport team for executing a world-class multi-sport event. Thank you, Jan Paterson, Erin McEvoy, Bronwyn Williams, Niva Shrestha, Nathan Homer and Dave Adey for entrusting us with the opportunity to tell your story to a live audience – we’re already excited about next year.

Massive credit to our wonderfully talented and diligent team: Moira Comfort, Emily Merron, Maria Aloy Figueras, Ben Morgan, Kerry Horton, Anna Piqueras and Matt Beal – all led brilliantly by Séan Hughes.

Thanks also to all our trusted suppliers and partners who were equally part of this mammoth team effort – Wise Concepts, AZFilmsKSA, EMG Eurovision Services Camera Corps Ltd, Progress Productions, Luna Remote Systems, Blitz Technology, Hyper Studios Ltd, Jonny Button and Quidich Innovation Labs.