The Executive Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to create the eSports Olympic Games, as announced this Friday by the president of the organizationthe German Thomas Bach, at the end of a meeting in Lausanne (Switzerland).
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This decision must be approved by the IOC assembly at the Session that will be held in Paris from July 22 to 24, just before the Olympic Games.
Bach stressed that, with this decision, the IOC is taking a significant step to maintain at the pace of the digital revolution.
IOC President Thomas Bach announces that the Executive Board has proposed the creation of ‘Olympic Esports Games’ to the 142nd IOC Session.
The IOC Members will vote on this proposal at the Session during the Olympic Games Paris 2024. pic.twitter.com/lIBUCxm2kK
— IOC MEDIA (@iocmedia) June 14, 2024
Additionally, he mentioned that they are already in advanced talks with a potential venue and that details on where and when these Esports Games will take place will be announced soon.
The IOC has stressed that the Olympic values will be a red line that will never be crossedensuring that the fundamental principles of the Olympic movement will be maintained in this new initiative.
The organization already has experience in this field, having organized the Virtual Olympic Series in 2021 and the Olympic eSports Week in 2023, an event that had the participation of more than 130 gamers.
For the future eSports Olympic Games, which will have a separate structure from the traditional Olympic Games, the IOC plans to first contact the federations that already have electronic versions of your sports to make up the sports program.
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