Video games in the Olympics?
By Alexander Vershinin and James Ellingworth, AP
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — The future of the Olympics may just be in a basement in Turkmenistan.
With leading Olympic figures considering a possible role for competitive computer games — known as esports — at the 2024 Games in Paris, a pan-Asian competition in the ex-Soviet state offers a possible vision of the future.
Including esports could give the Olympics a younger audience and a huge revenue boost from a rapidly growing market, but would be deeply controversial.