Olympic Esports Games

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Olympic Esports Games is a planned international multi-esport event. It will feature multiple different virtual sports and video games coming together in a single location, run by the International Olympic Committee. The events at the Olympic Esports Games have a connection with traditional Olympic sports, as the video game titles selected are chosen by international federations. While esports and competitive video gaming have traditionally not been considered a sport, the Olympic Movement began taking an interest as early as 2007, when esports were included at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games programme. In 2017, during the 6th Olympic Summit in Lausanne, the leading representatives of the Olympic Movement discussed about the rapid development of esports, agreeing that "competitive 'eSports' could be considered as a sporting activity", but "in order to be recognised by the IOC as a sport, the content of 'eSports' must not infringe on the Olympic values". After an online-only Olympic Virtual...

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