TVP takes to the ice with FIBT World Cup deal

Polish public-service broadcaster TVP has agreed a three-year deal to broadcast the International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation’s (FIBT) World Cup series.

TVP Sport will broadcast all eight events from the 2014-15 World Cup season, with the deal commencing with the ongoing opening round of the campaign at Lake Placid in the US.

The World Cup then moves on to Calgary, Canada on December 15-20 for its final event of the year.

The season resumes in 2015 with a round in Altenberg, Germany on January 5-11, before another German leg in Konigssee and further events in St. Moritz (Switzerland), La Plagne (France), Igls (Austria) and Sochi (Russia).