NEW DELHI, Sept 18 — ESports’ debut as a medal event at the Asian Games starting this week will change attitudes and be a major step towards Olympic recognition at last, gamers...
beat’em up game, the Asian Games opening on Saturday will mark how far he and eSports have come.
“I got a lot of scolding... I think I got beaten up,” laughed Prajapati, himself now a father to a two-year-old boy.Kim Gwan-woo, who will represent South Korea inThey remain “dubious” about him going to the Asian Games, he said, but added: “I think they will be very happy if I actually win a medal.”
“When I was a player in the late 1990s the initial reaction was, ‘Why is a video game on TV?’” Kang told AFP. “The dream will eventually be realised once it gets included into the Olympics as a fully fledged medal sport,” said Suji, also director of the Esports Federation of India. But even though the IOC officially recognised eSports as a sport in 2017, there is currently no plan to include video games in the Olympic programme.
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