Nowadays, e-sports have become more and more influential on a global scale. Many people think that e-sports should belong to sports. Even the International Olympic Committee is considering introducing e-sports projects for the first time in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. In Japan, there is electricity. The competition group 'Japan eSports Union' (JeSU) wants to join the Japanese Olympic Committee. However, as a big game country in Japan, the local Olympic Committee is taking a very cautious attitude. The Japanese Olympic committee member pointed out that 'E-sports affects the lives of young people.' , or may damage physical health and should not be considered sports.
According to the report of Asahi Shimbun, the director of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) believes that 'sports are physical exercise and promote healthy activities, but games may affect healthy life'. 'World Health Organization has defined online game addiction as A disease that is not likely to be considered as physical activity for e-sports that may cause damage to the body.
In the fall of 2018, 15 states in the United States will formally join e-sports in colleges and universities to become one of the sporting events. There is support for the opinion that e-sports for intellectual activities should be considered physical activity as physical activity sports. The definition of the word 'Sport' does not specify athletic activities that must be 'physical'. In fact, the International Olympic Committee has admitted that chess and bridge are 'regular' sports activities, but the two sports are not Today's major Olympic Games are listed as competition events.
IOC President Thomas Bach, who will meet with the e-sports industry in July, will collect opinions and will continue to discuss related issues.
IOC President Thomas Bach will meet with the gaming industry in July. (Source: AFP)
Explanation of 'Mind Sports' was given in the project proposal of the 29th Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
