This upcoming weekend, the Finnish Kennel Club will host the most-anticipated event of the international dog show calendar, the FCI World Dog Show 2014. If you are unable to get to the event in person, you should use the Internet to keep track of what's happening. A live broadcast of the event will be produced for the Internet and our real-time online results service makes it easy to follow the show's progress.

The live stream goes online at 2pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The live broadcast will cover the group finals on each day of the show. The Friday broadcast will also include the show's opening ceremony at 4.15pm and Sunday's stream will cover the selection of the Best in Show title winner at 7pm.

A link to the live stream will be published on the event website towards the end of the week.

On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, viewers can follow a live stream from the FCI Obedience World Championships, which are being arranged in conjunction with the FCI World Dog Show. The performances of fifty competitors from the later ring of the two-part competition will be shown on Wednesday and Thursday. Twenty competitors will progress to the finals of the FCI Obedience World Championships, which will be streamed live on Friday. Streaming of the obedience event will start at 9am on Wednesday and Friday, and 8:30am on Thursday. Watch live stream here. 

More than 21,200 dogs from 60 different countries are coming to the FCI World Dog Show. The dog show and the Junior Handler World Championships take place on 8-10 August, the FCI Obedience World Championships on 6-8 August and the Heelwork to Music and Freestyle World Championships on 6-7 August. Apart from the finals of the FCI Obedience World Championships, all of these events take place at Messukeskus, Expo and Convention Centre Helsinki. The obedience finals will be contested at the Energia Areena in Vantaa on Friday 8 August. 

Tickets to the FCI World Dog Show are on sale in the Messukeskus webshop as well as at the venue doors during the event. Tickets to the FCI Obedience World Championships and the Heelwork to Music and Freestyle World Championships will be on sale at entrance 5.6 to Hall 5 during these events.

Further information about tickets