{"id":370181,"date":"2024-07-15T13:34:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T16:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=370181"},"modified":"2024-07-15T13:34:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T16:34:19","slug":"saudi-arabia-to-host-esports-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudi-arabia-to-host-esports-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia to host Esports Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lausanne \u2013 Saudi Arabia will host the inaugural Esports Olympics in 2025, which will be held regularly for 12 years, the International Olympic Committee (<a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/ioc\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IOC<\/a>) said last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Saudi deal must be signed off by the IOC membership, which meets on 23 and 24 July in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes at a time of significant growth of sport overall in Saudi Arabia, which has been entrusted with delivering some of the biggest global sports events, including esports, football, motorsports, tennis, equestrian and golf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Saudi Arabia&#8217;s expertise<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are very fortunate to be able to work with the Saudi NOC on the Olympic Esports Games, because it has great \u2013- if not unique -\u2013 expertise in the field of esports with all its stakeholders,\u201d IOC president Thomas Bach said in a statement. Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Faisal, Minister of Sport and President of the Saudi Arabian Olympic and Paralympic Committee, said the country is \u201ca youthful nation, with over 23 million gamers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more:<\/em><br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudi-arabia-to-host-world-expo-2030\/\">Saudi Arabia to host World Expo 2030<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the announcement, \u201cwork will begin on selecting a city and venue for the inaugural edition of the Olympic Esports Games, the specific timing of the event, the titles to be included, the qualification process for the players and further details,\u201d IOC said, emphasizing that International Federations already engaged in an e-version of their sport that is considered for inclusion in the Olympic Esports Games will be the its first go-to partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reproduction is prohibited<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-370177\">\u00a9Quentin de Groeve\/Hans Lucas\/AFP<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arab country will host the inaugural Esports Olympics, IOC announced. A city and venue, the specific timing of the event, the qualification process for the players and further details are yet to be worked out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2345,"featured_media":370177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[35108,50171,50170,50169,9595],"class_list":{"0":"post-370181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-esports","9":"tag-esports-olympics","10":"tag-international-olympic-committee","11":"tag-ioc","12":"tag-saudi-arabia-en"},"wps_subtitle":"Arab country will host the inaugural Esports Olympics, IOC announced. A city and venue, the specific timing of the event, the qualification process for the players and further details are yet to be worked out.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}