The IOC will consider organizing the Olympic eSports Games
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The President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, has expressed his desire to organize the Olympic eSports Games. TASS reported this on Saturday.
Bach noted that he asked a special IOC commission to study this issue. He emphasized that about 3 billion people play computer games, and of these, more than 500 million are interested in e-sports. This means that eSports has become a significant and popular subculture among millions of people around the world.
Recently, two Russian e-sportsmen Daniil “Putrick” Abdrakhmanov and Egor “Swizzy” Lusiko found themselves at the center of a scandal. The $200,000 prize they won at the Fortnite championship has been revoked. The tournament organizers, Epic Games, canceled their victory and refused to pay them a reward due to their Russian citizenship. This case highlights the challenges and controversies that esports athletes can face in their careers.
E-sports in Russia was officially recognized as a sport in June 2016 after being excluded from the All-Russian Register of Sports in 2006. This decision was made by the then head of the Russian Ministry of Sports, Vyacheslav Fetisov.
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