IPC to explore providing the opportunity for 10 sports to conduct classification at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games 04/01/21
• Suspending the IPC’s zero classification policy is a one-off to address the challenges some sports are facing to classify all athletes before the Games
• The IPC is working to ensure that no prospective Tokyo 2020 athlete misses out on competing due to the lack of access to classification opportunities
• The IFs and NPCs are urged to do everything they can to ensure athletes are classified in the lead up to the Games
Following extensive consultation with International Federations and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board has temporarily set aside its ‘zero classification policy’ at Paralympic Games for Tokyo 2020 and will now allow 10 Para sports to operationally prepare for conducting classification in the host city ahead of this summer’s Paralympic Games.
International Paralympic Committee to unleash potential of digital content through egoli Media s AI technology 03/10/21
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has today appointed egoli Media, an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled technology and media company, to transform its content management, increase accessibility and create new monetisation and storytelling opportunities.
The partnership, which has been secured until 31 December 2024, will see egoli Media use its proprietary AI software to digitise and automatically log, tag and categorise all IPC-owned content, which will enable better and faster access to footage from previous and future Paralympic Games, as well as other major Para sport events.
egoli’s AI technology will be able to analyse and tag Paralympic content frame by frame to create an organised, data-rich library and personalised search experience, catalogued to identify Para athletes, places, actions and brands. It is also sophisticated enough to an