From The House Of Zeus In Olympia To The Modern Video Games

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The ancient Olympic Games included a number of athletics events that sports followers right now would recognise including running, long leap, shot put and javelin. By the time of the primary trendy Olympic Games at Athens 1896, athletics was once again one of the primary options of the programme, with observe events ranging from 100m to 1500m, the marathon, and subject events corresponding to long bounce and pole vault. At Tokyo 2020, athletes competed in 26 events – the same number that’s on the programme for Paris 2024. Esports and aggressive video games have blown up through the years, and organizations just like the International Olympic Committee are starting to take an interest. With Asian Games opening the floodgates and saying eight esports titles as medal events on the upcoming September Asian Games 2022 (being held in 2023 because of COVID-19), it seems the International Olympics Committee also needs to strive its arms on it, saying an esports series. However, while Asian Games featured a number of the well-known, legacy esports titles because the medal games, the Olympic Esports lineup is unusual in itself.

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