Olympic Esports Games

Olympic Esports Games is a planned international multi-esport event. It will feature multiple different virtual sports and video games coming together in a single location, run by the International Olympic Committee. The events at the Olympic Esports Games have a connection with traditional Olympic sports, as the video game titles selected are chosen by international federations.

While esports and competitive video gaming have traditionally not been considered a sport, the Olympic Movement began taking an interest as early as 2007, when esports were included at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games programme. In 2017, during the 6th Olympic Summit in Lausanne, the leading representatives of the Olympic Movement discussed about the rapid development of esports, agreeing that "competitive 'eSports' could be considered as a sporting activity", but "in order to be recognised by the IOC as a sport, the content of 'eSports' must not infringe on the Olympic values".

After an online-only Olympic Virtual Series was held during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, featuring five esports across ten events, the IOC eventually announced the creation of the Olympic Esports Series, as part of the Olympic Esports Week, in November 2022. The inaugural edition was held in Singapore in June 2023.

On 11 February 2025, the IOC announced the first Olympic Esports Games were set to be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2027. However, on 30 October, the IOC announced they would organize the Olympic Esports Games on their own after talks broke down with the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee and the Esports World Cup Foundation, who initially partnered for the Games organization. It is currently unknown if the inaugural Esports Games will still be held as scheduled.