Jun 14, 2024, 09:45 ET
The IOC assembly must approve this decision at the Session that will be held in Paris on the eve of the Olympic Games, from July 22 to 24.
The Executive Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) agreed to the creation of the Olympic Games of the eSports.
The German Thomas Bachpresident of the organization, reported this at the end of a meeting of the Executive in Lausanne (Switzerland).
The IOC Assembly must approve this decision at the Session to be held in Paris on the eve of the Olympic Gamesfrom July 22 to 24.
“With this decision the IOC “takes a huge step forward to keep pace with the digital revolution,” he said. Bach.
He IOC It is already in “advanced talks” with a potential venue and an announcement on where and when these electronic sports Games will be held can be expected shortly, the organization indicated.
Bach assured that the Olympic values ”will be a red line that will never be crossed.”
He IOC already organized in 2021 the Virtual Olympic Series and in 2023 the Olympic eSports Week, in which more than 130 gamers participated.
For future Games, which will have “a separate structure” from the Olympic traditional, the federations that already have an electronic version of their sports will be the first at whose door the IOC to form the sports program.
