The esports at the Olympic games in Paris 2024? More than an idea

Electronic sports could be included in the Games scheduled in 2024 in the French capital: experimentation in the Asian Games 2022.

Outside the European continent, in fact, electronic sports are considered like real sports disciplines: they are the eSports, electronic games that in 2022 will be part of the medal table of the Asian Olympic Games. However, the advancement of video games among the five circles could not stop there.

The 2024 Paris Olympics promotion team is in fact considering the possibility of discussing the introduction of eSports in the program of the Games scheduled in France: the proposal has arrived on the IOC table, the International Olympic Committee, and could become a reality in view of the edition that will celebrate the centenary of the last Olympics held in the French capital, dating back to 1924.

The esports are now the new frontier of the sports world and have been able to generate revenues of 400 million dollars in 2016, involving 320 million people worldwide. The Paris edition of the Olympic Games could thus be the site of a historic turning point. The former Olympic champion and co-president of Paris-2024 Tony Estanguet has just confirmed that through the Associated Press.