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eSports becomes medal event at 2022 Asian Games
Updated On: 19 December, 2020 09:55 AM IST | Hong Kong | AFP
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach delivers a speech on video during the 39th Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) General Assembly Meeting in the Omani capital Muscat. Pic/AFP
eSports has been named as a full medal event for the 2022 Asian Games, in a major step towards the mainstream for a sport that has long harboured Olympic ambitions. eSports and breakdancing were both included on the programme for the Games in Hangzhou, China, at the Olympic Council of Asia's general assembly in Muscat this week.
"I hope that electronic sports will add value to the Asian Games -- and I am sure it will in the future, during the Asian Games 2022 and even beyond that," the OCA's Asian Games director, Haider Farman, said in a statement on Friday. eSports was a popular demonstration event at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, and a medal sport at last year's Southeast Asian Games in the Philippines.
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