Video Games Won't Be Part of the Paris Olympics (fortune.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday December 10, 2018 @05:55AM from the tough-luck dept.

The Olympic Games regularly add new events, but officials aren't quite ready to embrace eSports. From a report: This weekend, the International Olympic Committee met for the 7th Olympic Summit, where competitive video gaming was among the topics of discussion. The verdict? It's still "premature" to discuss including them in the Olympic games. That's bound to be disappointing to supporters, who had hoped for a breakthrough in the 2024 Paris games. Tony Estanguet, co-president of the Paris Olympic committee, is a proponent of bringing video games to the Olympics.

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Re:Good by bws111 · 2018-12-10 07:28 · Score: 3, Interesting

The founder of the modern Olympics wanted it to be about 'men being educated in mind and body competing in something other than war'. The art competitions were removed not because they 'were not athletic events'. but because they had difficulty finding amateur competitors, as well as the inherent difficulties in judging such works.