Unprecedented Announcement: Olympic Esports Game
At the 142nd IOC Session, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially announced the formation of the Olympic Esports Games happened. These Games are set to begin in 2025 in Saudi Arabia, a major step forward for the integration of electronic sports into the Olympic Movement.
A New Era for the IOC
Speaking at the ceremony, IOC President Thomas Bach stated, "This is genuinely a new age for the IOC. By creating the Olympic Esports Games, announced to us in this session, we are living up to the digital revolution."
Finally, on July 12, the IOC confirmed that the National Olympic Committee of Saudi Arabia will co-host the first Olympic Esports Games. This decision received a unanimous vote of confidence from the IOC's executive board. Enthusiastic cooperation by the esports community, through the IOC Esports Commission, shows how appealing the Olympic brand is to young people.
Saudi Arabia's Own Contribution
HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Faisal, Minister of Sport and President of the Saudi Arabian Olympic and Paralympic Committee, joined in, responding, "Our involvement in esports is simply a reflection of the world which our young people inhabit. We all now have the opportunity to write new Olympic history together."
Transformation
The same is true for IOC member HRH Princess Reema Bandar Al-Saud, Who is also a board member of the Saudi Arabian Olympic and Paralympic Committee, "With over 23.5 million gamers, many of whom are women, it is a natural progression to host the Olympic Esports games in 2025 on our journey to open up Saudi Arabia and also the world to Saudi Arabia." Gaming industry in Saudi Arabia has begun to rise within a short time, a number of international gaming tournaments have been held here with a large amount of participants and viewing worldwide. The wave of Saudi gamblers in gaming competitions shows that it is only right that the first Olympic Games for Esports ever take place there.
Segments and Structure
An Olympic Esports Games organizing committee will be established immediately by the IOC secretariat. The focus will be on selecting the city and venue, which games to use, how to define who can compete. In addition, a framework will be designed for the Games - completely new in nature to that of traditional Olympics - to take its own distinctive form.
Shaping the Course for The IOC
What is its significance? Answering such questions at a press conference, Thomas Bach said very simply: "For us it is a milestone; not quite just entering new boundary overs in this way but definitively (.) doing so from a very solid base."
Background of the IOC's Involvement in Esports
The World eSports Forum was attended by the then IOC President Thomas Bach in July, 2018, and also after the sixth Olympic Summit in Lausanne a year earlier discussions on that matter began coming up regularly; then in 2023 an Olympic Esports Week was held in Singapore which saw the IOC Esports Commission produce for its Study On Making AnIncidentally such an announcement.
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