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 The International Olympic Committee is exploring the possibility of including esports in future Games. 
  
 The Olympic governing body said esports "can provide a platform for engagement with the Olympic movement". 
  
 However, to be included the content "must not infringe on the Olympic values". 
  
 In August, the Paris 2024 bid team said it was keen to discuss the introduction of esports with the IOC, adding: "The youth are interested, let's meet them." 
  
 The 2024 programme will start to be shaped in 2019, and a decision on what sports are to be added in Paris will be taken after the 2020 Games in Tokyo. 
  
 "We have to look at it because we can't say, 'it's [esports are] not about Olympics,'" Paris 2024 co-president Tony Estanguet said in August. 
  
 Competitive video gaming generated £400m in revenue in 2016, has a global audience of about 320 million, and will be included in the 2022 Asian Games. 
  
 At Saturday's summit, the IOC agreed esports is "showing strong growth, especially within the youth demographic across different countries". 
  
 It added that competitive esports could be considered as a sporting activity, and that the players involved may be comparable to athletes in traditional sports as they "prepare and train with an intensity". 
  
 A further requirement for its future inclusion would be compliance with the IOC's rules and regulations in areas such as anti-doping, betting and manipulation. ||||| International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach casts a shadow during a news conference after an Executive Board meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, December 8, 2016. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse 
  
 BERLIN (Reuters) - Competitive e-sports could be part of the Olympic experience as long as it adhered to Olympic values, the International Olympic Committee said on Saturday. 
  
 The rapidly growing world of e-sports and its popularity among young people has ignited the interest of the IOC as it looks to refresh its own ageing audience and make the Games relevant to a new generation. 
  
 “The Summit agreed that “eSports” are showing strong growth, especially within the youth demographic across different countries, and can provide a platform for engagement with the Olympic Movement,” the IOC said in a statement after the meeting with Olympic stakeholders in Lausanne. 
  
 Those stakeholders included international federations, national Olympic committees and athletes’ representatives among others. 
  
 “Competitive “eSports” could be considered as a sporting activity, and the players involved prepare and train with an intensity which may be comparable to athletes in traditional sports,” it said. 
  
 But any future inclusion in the Games would require official recognition of it as an Olympic sport and would also need a governing organization that would guarantee compliance “with the rules and regulations of the Olympic movement.” 
  
 E-sports include competitive gaming where players square off in lucrative tournaments and draw millions of spectators online. 
  
 Global audiences are expected to reach 385.5 million this year, according to research firm Newzoo. 
  
 E-sports will be part of the medals event at the 2022 Asian Games, while many professional sports teams have also set up their own ‘e-teams’ competing for national and international titles. ||||| Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) 
  
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 Key Olympic figures, including IOC president Thomas Bach, believe esports “can provide a platform for engagement with the Olympic Movement.” 
  
 Leaders discussed esports at the IOC base of Lausanne, Switzerland, on Saturday and were complimentary of esports, which is not yet recognized by the IOC, the first step to potential Olympic inclusion. 
  
 “Competitive ‘esports’ could be considered as a sporting activity, and the players involved prepare and train with an intensity which may be comparable to athletes in traditional sports,” read a press release from the IOC of findings during Saturday’s meeting. 
  
 The Olympic leaders said Saturday they were hopeful of further esports discussions but did not mention possible Olympic inclusion in the release. 
  
 Previously, Bach reportedly said in April that the IOC was “not yet 100 percent clear whether esports is really sport.” Bach also spoke out against games that promote violence and killing. 
  
 In August, a Paris 2024 Olympic bid leader reportedly said he planned to talk with esports representatives and the IOC about gaming possibly joining the 2024 Olympic program. 
  
 Los Angeles 2028 Olympic bid chairman Casey Wasserman has praised esports. 
  
 “We view esports’ immense global popularity and continued advances in digital technologies as tremendous tools for reconnecting millennials with the Olympic movement,” Wasserman said in a press release last year. “LA 2024 [sic] will work to ensure technology enhances young people’s sports experiences, instead of replacing them, and becomes a platform for further popularizing Olympic and Paralympic sports.” 
  
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Solution:
The International Olympic Committee has taken the first step toward allowing competitive video game playing into the Olympics, NBC Sports reports. According to Reuters, the IOC released a statement Saturday after meeting in Switzerland stating that e-sports "could be considered as a sporting activity, and the players involved prepare and train with an intensity which may be comparable to athletes in traditional sports." It's a sign of progress for competitive video game playing after IOC president Thomas Bach previously said the committee was "not yet 100% clear whether e-sports is really sports." The IOC has been eyeing e-sports as one possible way of getting young people invested in the Olympics, and the team behind the 2024 Paris Games had asked to discuss adding e-sports because "the youth are interested," the BBC reports. The chairman of Los Angeles' successful 2028 Olympic bid has also been high on e-sports. A decision on bringing video games to the Olympics won't be made until after the 2020 Games in Tokyo. In order for it to happen, e-sports would have to be recognized as an official Olympic sport, conform to Olympic values, and create a governing body to make sure it follows Olympic rules regarding doping, gambling, and more. Competitive video game playing brought in more than $525 million in revenue in 2016 and is expected to have a global audience exceeding 385 million people this year.