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☆ Esports joins Pan Am Games, but medals won't count
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

But any medals won will not be added to their country's official total as they were at the recent Asian Games where esports had full medal status and was one of the most popular events drawing huge enthusiastic crowds. Like the Asian Games the Pan Am competition will be closely watched by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as Esports makes a push for a spot on the Olympic programme. While esports is making its Pan Am Games debut, gamers have been part of many other multi-sport competitions, including the Commonwealth and the European Games. One reason esports medals are not being counted at the Pan Am Games is that gamers are not subject to doping controls like every other athlete in Santiago. Authorities in Hangzhou ploughed $627 million into building a new esports venue while the Pan Am Games competition will be staged in a tent in a grassy corner of the Games fan zone.

Persons: SANTIAGO, Esports, esports, Paul Foster, Foster, Steve Keating, Toby Davis Organizations: Pan American, Asian, International Olympic Committee, Pan Am, Commonwealth, European, IOC, Global Esports Federation, Doping Agency, Esports, Ams, Pan Am Games, Thomson Locations: Sunday's, esport, Santiago ., Hangzhou, Santiago

☆ Cricket, flag football among five sports given LA28 nod - reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

An LA2028 sign is seen at the Los Angeles Coliseum to celebrate Los Angeles being awarded the 2028 Olympic Games, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., September 13, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNEW YORK, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Organisers of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics want cricket, flag football, lacrosse, squash, as well as baseball and softball added to their Games programme, according to media reports on Monday. LA28 organisers are expected to make public their recommendations in the next day, according to the Guardian. Flag football, an appealing option for the U.S.-based Games given the overwhelming popularity of the National Football League (NFL), squash and lacrosse would make their Olympic debut, if approved. Cricket, which enjoys enormous global appeal, would return after appearing once before at the 1900 Games, after the tremendous success for women's cricket at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Persons: Lucy Nicholson, Amy Tennery, Karolos, Amlan, Christian Radnedge, Pritha Organizations: Los Angeles Coliseum, REUTERS, Olympics, International Olympic Committee, Los Angeles Times, IOC, Guardian, Flag, U.S, National Football League, Cricket, Games, International Cricket Council, Paris Games, Summer, Thomson Locations: Los Angeles, Los Angeles , California, U.S, Mumbai, Tokyo, Paris, New York

"It's very special," said one of Taiwan's female breakers, 25-year-old Yang Jia-li, who added that breaking had massively boosted her confidence. Along with esports' debut as a medal event in Hangzhou, organisers hope "breaking" can help lure young viewers turned off by traditional Games sports. A counter-cultural art-form born in the streets of New York City decades ago, breakdancing is judged against broad criteria in competition. "But before the Olympics we've been doing competitions even in our (underground breaking) culture. “I'm getting used to it and I'm getting used to these sport rules.

Persons: breakdancing, Yang Jia, esports, Sun Zhen, Meng Changqing, Meng, Kim Heon, we've, Kim, I’m, “ I'm, ”, Sun, Ian Ransom, Ken Ferris Organizations: Asian Games, Paris, Sporting, Games, Asian, Thomson Locations: HANGZHOU, China, Eastern, Hangzhou, New York, South Korea

☆ US breaker prepares for mental battle at Games
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Amy Tennery | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Montalvo held off one of his fiercest rivals, Canadian Phil Wizard, in the final to take the World Breaking Championship title late last month and become the first American to qualify for breaking at the Olympics. "Breaking is more mental than physical. "It doesn't matter how fast you are or how strong you are, you can have the craziest moves in the world, but that doesn't mean you're the best breaker in the world." I just make sure that I do add a little bit more of the physicality for it." Reporting by Amy Tennery in New York Editing by Toby DavisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Victor – Victor Montalvo, Yves Herman, Victor Montalvo, Montalvo, Phil Wizard, Amy Tennery, Toby Davis Organizations: United, Reuters, Colorado Springs, USA, Thomson Locations: Leuven, Belgium, Paris, Colorado, New York

☆ Recommendation on new sports for Los Angeles 2028 delayed -IOC
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

An LA2028 sign is seen at the Los Angeles Coliseum to celebrate Los Angeles being awarded the 2028 Olympic Games, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., September 13, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsBERLIN, Sept 6 (Reuters) - A final recommendation on the new sports to be included in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics will not be made this week as originally planned, the International Olympics Committee said on Wednesday. The IOC was initially due to discuss it at Friday's executive board meeting. "Due to ongoing discussions between the IOC and the (LA2028) Organising Committee, the Olympic Programme Commission has not yet had the opportunity to hold its meeting to prepare its final recommendation for the IOC Executive Board," the IOC said in a statement. "As a consequence, the sports programme for the Olympic Games LA28 will be discussed during a later IOC Executive Board meeting, to take place at a date to be decided."

Persons: Lucy Nicholson, Karolos Grohmann, Ed Osmond Organizations: Los Angeles Coliseum, REUTERS, Rights, International Olympics, IOC, Olympic, Games, Tokyo Games, Thomson Locations: Los Angeles, Los Angeles , California, U.S, Los, Tokyo, Asia

☆ Exclusive: Olympics: Decision on new sports for LA28 to come Sept. 8, source says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Frank Pingue | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced this week that it will hold an Executive Board meeting on Sept. 8 when, according to the source, it will take a decision on the LA28 programme. The IOC Session would need to ratify that decision when it meets Oct. 15-17 in Mumbai. The Executive Board consists of IOC President Thomas Bach, four vice-presidents and 10 other members whereas the Session is a general meeting of IOC members. The nine sports seeking inclusion for LA28 consists of flag football, karate, kickboxing, baseball-softball, lacrosse, breakdancing, squash, motorsport and cricket. In February 2022, the IOC confirmed 28 "youth-focused" sports for inclusion at LA28 a list that includes skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing.

Persons: Thomas Bach, Frank Pingue, Ed Osmond Organizations: Olympic Committee, IOC, Olympic, Olympic Programme, Executive, Reuters, Tokyo Games, Thomson Locations: Los, Mumbai, Tokyo, Toronto

☆ GB Boxing seeks associate membership of new world body
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) - GB Boxing will seek associate membership of World Boxing, a new rival to the Russian-led International Boxing Association (IBA), as the divided sport fights for its Olympic future, it said on Tuesday. GB Boxing delivers the United Kingdom's publicly-funded World Class Programme but is not a national governing body as England, Wales and Scotland have their own separate ones. Associate membership does not carry voting rights but will allow representatives of GB Boxing to hold offices within World Boxing. "It is vitally important to the future of the sport in the UK and across the globe that boxing remains part of the Olympic programme," said GB Boxing chair Jason Glover in a statement. "GB Boxing has played a significant role in helping to establish World Boxing and the decision to apply for associate membership is a sign of our long-term commitment to the new organisation and a desire on our behalf to play a part in its future development."

Persons: Kingdom's, Jason Glover, Alan Baldwin, Ken Ferris Organizations: Boxing, Boxing Association, Olympic, IBA, IOC, Thomson Locations: Russian, England, Wales, Scotland, Germany, Britain, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Sweden, United States, Los

☆ Britain confirms boycott of men's world championships
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

LONDON, April 4 (Reuters) - British boxers will not take part in the men's amateur world championships in Tashkent after the country also boycotted last month's women's event in India amid mounting concern about the sport's Olympic future. The men's tournament starts on April 30 in the Uzbek capital and runs to May 14. GB Boxing had said in February when it announced a boycott of the women's championships that it was reviewing participation in the men's. GB Boxing will send a team to the European Games in Poland, an official qualifying event for the Paris 2024 Olympics. The U.S. and Irish federations announced in February they would not be participating in either the women's or men's world championships.

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