At the Paris Olympics in 2024, "e sports" is officially targeted, the committee mentioned the possibility of adding a line

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In the summer Olympic Games, which is surely being held in Paris in 2024, the possibility that a sports "e sports" contested in computer games will be selected as an additional event has emerged.

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Tony Estanguet, co-chair of the Paris Olympic Committee, does not want to say "No" from the beginning about considering adding e-sports to the interview of the Associated Press.IOC (International Olympic Committee) and It is very interesting to understand what kind of process will be done in cooperation with e sports stakeholders and why eSports has such success, "he said, adding a computer game to a new" sports We refer to the possibility of adopting it as ".

e-sports are said to be popular around the "millennials" who was born in 2000 from 1980, in the United StatesIt has become a threat to the professional sports industry of American football and basketballIt has reached a presence that is said to be said. In e sports, the player does not necessarily challenge the limits of athletic ability by forging physical body, but in respect to one competition many people are thirsty and heartily watching the way of winning with a conscience " It can be said that it has charm as.

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Estanguet says you may want to consider "We are about to add the e-sports in the competition events. Because" e-sports is not related to us, we do not say that there is no "that related to the Olympic Games. Young people e it is crazy to those related sports and in it. there? do not we Mukeyo the eye. episode a listen, and what do you think you find something so that the bridge ", shows the policy to leave a positive likely It is.

E Sports has begun to show its presence even at large sports festivals, and at the same time at the Rio Olympics held in 2016 "Rio De Janeiro E Games"Is held. Also, at the Asian Games to be held in Jakarta, Indonesia and Palembang in 2018A demonstration of e sports was held, And in the following tournament to be held in 2022Selection as an official medal eventIt is being reached.

'E sports Olympics' held in Rio de Janeiro in August 2016 - GIGAZINE


It is almost certain that the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held in August 2024 and is expected to be officially decided at the IOC General Assembly to be held in September 2017. In the selection process of this time, Los Angeles America, which had been holding a battle over the venue for the 2024 convention, is to negotiate and win the invitation of 2028 tournament following the conclusion of holding the 2024 convention in Paris It is an exceptional development that the venue of the two competitions will be decided at the same time.

In the background, the city, which expressed his candidacy for the burden of the surging expenses, was forced to withdraw from the local opposition, and finally only Paris and Los Angeles remained in the candidate city There is a history. This is a remarkable phenomenon also in the Tokyo Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games in 2020 where the holding cost has been rising sharply than the initial schedule.

Although the Olympic Games, which is said to have started from the 1984 Ross Olympics, is becoming commercialized and massive, the Olympic Games in the 21st century is likely to redefine the concept of "sports". Whether e Sports will be recognized as an official event at the Paris Olympics will be decided after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are held.