Gaming levels up with historic Asiad inclusion By SHI FUTIAN | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-18 08:55 Share CLOSE
Hangzhou 2022 ratifies e-sports as medal event as Games go digital
The official ratification of e-sports as a medal event for the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou on Wednesday has been hailed as a milestone in both gaming and sporting history.
The inclusion completes a process to add e-sports to the lineup that began in 2017. The street-dance discipline of breaking will also debut on the Asiad s official event program after a proposal by Hangzhou s local organizing committee was approved by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) at its General Assembly, held in Muscat, Oman, and online on Wednesday.