Olympic President: ‘Violent games go against Olympic values’

The President of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, has spoken out about what creates barriers between esports and the Olympics, and this problem is hard to fix for the vast majority of popular esports titles today.

While open about the general idea, Bach is still concerned about reception and certain game standards need to be met.

“We can’t have an Olympic program about gaming that promotes violence or discrimination,” Bach said at the press conference. “Murder games. From our perspective, they go against Olympic values ​​and that’s unacceptable.”

With the most popular games on the market today like Fortnite, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends, Dota 2, and PUBG, the chances of us seeing esports at the Olympics at the moment are very slim.

Since each of these games have weapons, attack opponents and take them down, and languages ​​like terrorist and counter-terrorist, there’s a lot that stands in the way of popular esports titles. currently accepted by the Olympics.

Bach is no stranger to competitive play and the use of weapons in it. He shared how he feels about the difference between a “sport” and esports. “Of course there is still combat sport, with its roots in actual fighting between people,” he said. “But sport is described in a human way. If you have a game about killing someone, it doesn’t fit the Olympic values.”

Esports has found success in many markets and has grown tremendously over the years but with the Olympics, there is so much in esports that makes the e-sports community unacceptable by the Olympics. One of them is the language, the gameplay, among other things.

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