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24 February, 2025

By Grand Slam Track

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London, UK, and Los Angeles, USA (25 February 2025) - Grand Slam Track™, the new global home of professional track competition, launched by four-time Olympic Champion Michael Johnson, today announced it has selected global sports AI, tech, and data leader Stats Perform as its exclusive global data and betting rights distributor and integrity partner.

Grand Slam Track™ is the premier global professional track league, featuring

head-to-head matchups between the fastest stars in the sport. Every detail has been

designed to unlock the sport’s full potential of storytelling, personalities, and

gamification for broadcast and commercial partners and most importantly, for track

stars and fans.

Amongst increased prize money, contracted racers, and many other innovations

designed to elevate the profile of track racing, only one race will take place at a time

at each Slam. The Slams will be broadcast live on linear TV and streaming, and

across licensed sportsbooks. Together these initiatives are expected to create

unprecedented fan affinity and attention for the racers and rivalries.

Stats Perform is a trusted partner to many of the world’s highest profile professional

men’s and women’s sports organisations, with a deep expertise in collecting,

creating and distributing trusted, premium sports data, AI technology, news and

video content to maximise fan and bettor engagement, as well as supplying integrity

services across the world of professional sport.

“We're delighted to partner with a world leader like Stats Perform to help us bring

track to more fans across the globe,” said Michael Johnson, Commissioner of Grand

Slam Track™.

“We look forward to setting a new standard for our sport with Stats Perform's

extensive network of trusted media and betting partners, eye-opening technology,

and their true passion for the power of sport to unify and entertain. After helping

leagues like the Premier League, WTA, La Liga and more build their audiences,

we're excited for them to do the same with Grand Slam Track,” he added.

“This partnership with Stats Perform is important for Grand Slam Track and the entire

sport for a few reasons,” said Steve Gera, President of Grand Slam Track. “In

addition to co-investing into the development of data and betting infrastructure for the

sport, Stats Perform is also ensuring that all of our athletes, partners, and

stakeholders enter this space with the highest level of knowledge, education, and

integrity. They will be an important asset to the large investment our league is

making into this sport.”

“MJ and the Grand Slam Track™ team have created something with astonishing

entertainment and commercial potential for men’s and women’s track athletics, built

upon his decades of unique experience on all sides of the spectrum, as a racer, as a

media professional and as an entrepreneur,” explained Carl Mergele, Chief

Executive Officer at Stats Perform.

“Everyone at Stats Perform is honoured to have been selected as Grand Slam

Track™’s exclusive data and betting streaming rights provider. We are excited to

help them realise their vision of lifting the stories and personalities of track racing to

their rightful positions in the hearts and minds of fans and bettors globally,” he said.

Grand Slam Track™ will host four Slams taking place this year between April and

June in Kingston, Jamaica, Miami at Miramar, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. 96

contracted men’s and women’s star athletes will race over three action-packed

hours, across 12 event groups for three consecutive nights. All four Grand Slam

Track events will be streamed live in the U.S. on Peacock, including exclusive

coverage of Slam Fridays, with the CW Network providing broadcast coverage of

Slam Saturdays and Sundays. International broadcast information will be announced

soon. Tickets for all four Slams are on sale now. For more information, please visit https://grandslamtrack.com/events

Each ‘made-for-live’ Slam will feature unprecedented rivalry, head-to-head

competition and storytelling from the best performers and biggest personalities in

track racing, including Gabby Thomas, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Josh Kerr, Cole

Hocker, Quincy Hall, Kenny Bednarek, Masai Russell, and many more.

For further information, please follow @GrandSlamTrack on all social media

platforms, and visit grandslamtrack.com.

For more information about Stats Perform’s wide range of services for media, teams,

apps, sponsors and betting operators to attract and engage fans and bettors, please

visit www.statsperform.com . Licensed betting operators in the USA should contact

Stats Perform’s exclusive reseller in that market, www.sportscontentco.com

ENDS

About Stats Perform and SportsContentCo

Stats Perform is the market leader in sports tech providing the most trusted sports

data and the latest advancements in applying AI and machine learning to deliver

better predictions for teams, sportsbooks and a more engaging broadcast, media

and fan experience. The company collects the most detailed sports data to create

new experiences across sports. Leveraging the richest sports database, Stats

Perform enhances sports competition and entertainment through machine learning

and computer vision to create advanced predictions and analysis – be that for digital

and broadcast media with differentiated storytelling, tech companies with reliable and

fast data to power their innovations, sportsbooks with in-play betting, integrity

services for rights holders and other stakeholders, or teams with first-of-its-kind AI

analysis software. SportsContentCo is the exclusive reseller of Stats Perform

premium sports betting content to licensed sportsbooks in the United States. For

more information, visit StatsPerform.com or SportsContentCo.com.