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Yahoo
11-02-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Esports Olympics to debut in Saudi Arabia later than expected in 2027
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The first Olympic Esports Games will be hosted in Riyadh in 2027, two years later than expected when a 12-year deal with Saudi Arabia was signed last year. The International Olympic Committee said Tuesday its founding partner for the event will be the kingdom's Esports World Cup Foundation. The first annual Esports World Cup was held last July and August in Riyadh with tens of millions of dollars in prize money paid for games including Call of Duty, Fortnite and Street Fighter. It is unclear which, if any, shooter games the IOC will allow on the Esports Olympics program, which it has repeatedly said must align with Olympic values. A six-person panel, co-chaired by veteran IOC member Ser Miang Ng and Saudi sports minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Faisal, will work on deciding the games program, the IOC said. Details of the inaugural Esports Olympics were confirmed two days after Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman hosted a visiting Olympic delegation in Riyadh, including its president Thomas Bach, who leaves office in June. The 12-year deal was confirmed last July on the eve of the Paris Olympics as the latest prime sporting asset for the oil-rich kingdom to own or host. FIFA confirmed Saudi Arabia as host of the 2034 World Cup in men's soccer in December. IOC members were told in Paris the vision for the Esports Olympics was to hold it every two years starting in 2025, with 'physical, simulated and electronic games' included. Qualifying competitions for national teams are set to start this year. ___ AP sports: The Associated Press
Associated Press
11-02-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Esports Olympics to debut in Saudi Arabia later than expected in 2027
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The first Olympic Esports Games will be hosted in Riyadh in 2027, two years later than expected when a 12-year deal with Saudi Arabia was signed last year. The International Olympic Committee said Tuesday its founding partner for the event will be the kingdom's Esports World Cup Foundation. The first annual Esports World Cup was held last July and August in Riyadh with tens of millions of dollars in prize money paid for games including Call of Duty, Fortnite and Street Fighter. It is unclear which, if any, shooter games the IOC will allow on the Esports Olympics program, which it has repeatedly said must align with Olympic values. A six-person panel, co-chaired by veteran IOC member Ser Miang Ng and Saudi sports minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Faisal, will work on deciding the games program, the IOC said. Details of the inaugural Esports Olympics were confirmed two days after Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman hosted a visiting Olympic delegation in Riyadh, including its president Thomas Bach, who leaves office in June. The 12-year deal was confirmed last July on the eve of the Paris Olympics as the latest prime sporting asset for the oil-rich kingdom to own or host. FIFA confirmed Saudi Arabia as host of the 2034 World Cup in men's soccer in December. IOC members were told in Paris the vision for the Esports Olympics was to hold it every two years starting in 2025, with 'physical, simulated and electronic games' included. Qualifying competitions for national teams are set to start this year. ___
Zawya
30-01-2025
- Politics
- Zawya
72% of International Olympic Committee (IOC) members catch presidential election fever for first time in Lausanne
The IOC members are in Lausanne for today's (30 January) 143rd Extraordinary IOC Session at the Olympic House, during which the IOC presidential candidates will deliver their presentations ( THE ATMOSPHERE With two months to the election set for 20 March in Greece, the atmosphere is tense in the Olympic capital, and expectedly so, as campaigning intensifies in these days. LOOKING BACK AT 2013 It's been 11-plus years since the last candidate presentations in July 2013, in Lausanne, which featured incumbent President Thomas Bach of Germany and five other candidates; Sergey Bubka (Ukraine), Richard Carrion (Puerto Rico), Ser Miang Ng (Singapore), Denis Oswald (Switzerland) and Ching-kuo Wu (Chinese Taipei). 2013 ELECTION On 10 September 2013, Bach won the election after two rounds of voting. In the second round he received 49 votes, two more than he needed. His opponents got 44 votes combined: Bubka - 4, Carrion - 29, Miang Ng - 6, Oswald - 5. Wu was eliminated after the first round of voting. In the first round, Bach got 43 votes, Bubka - 8, Carrion - 23, Miang Ng - 6, Oswald - 7, and Wu - 6. Miang Ng won the round 1 tie-break against Wu 56-36. NEW FACES Since then, the IOC membership has welcomed many new faces, 80 of which are still IOC members. Hence, 72 per cent of the current IOC members are for the first time facing this critical decision that would shape the future of the Olympic body - in 2021, Bach was re-elected unopposed and members only had to simply vote yes or no. Among the candidates for this year's election, only Juan Antonio Samaranch, Prince Feisal Al Hussein and Kirsty Coventry were already IOC members at the time Bach was first elected. BIG DECISION Amid economic, environmental, security and technological challenges, the IOC members have to decide who among these seven (in order of the draw conducted in November by a Lausanne-based public notary); Prince Feisal Al Hussein (Jordan), David Lappartient (France), Johan Eliasch (Great Britain/Sweden), Juan Antonio Samaranch (Spain), Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe), Lord Sebastian Coe (Great Britain) and Morinari Watanabe (Japan), will usher in a new era for the Olympic movement. THE ELECTION The President will be elected by secret ballot for a term of eight years, with the possibility to stand for re-election for a second, four-year term. The term of office of the new IOC President will start on 24 June 2025. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of International Sports Press Association (AIPS).
