CMV: Esports should not be an Olympic event/events.

So it you haven't heard the [Olympics is planning starting next year to host esports events.](https://olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-enters-a-new-era-with-the-creation-of-olympic-esports-games-first-games-in-2025-in-saudi-arabia) I think that such a thing should not at all be under the Olympic umbrella or brand, this being because it is against the fundamentals of what the Olympics are.

The Olympics are designed to be an international event that promotes sports and friendly sports competition internationally. Every Olympic event is geared towards this goal; the Summer, Winter, and Paralympics all work with this in mind; it's different countries doing sport. Most Olympic style branding is geared towards this, promoting exercise and partaking in different sports around the world with a particular focus on older and more historic sports. It is not connected to specific companies or sponsors, it's a transnational organization focused on fostering friendly competition at it's core.

Esports at their core are not the same; they do not involve the same level of exercise in order to partake and at their core are not the same as Olympic sports. They do not involve the same level of sportsman ship, they all fundamentally need to be organized with the company who made the game, no game as the same storied history to it as an Olympic sport, and lack the physical aspect. To have an esports Olympics would be on the same tier as introducing a board games olympics where people play Uno or Monopoly as the events.

The sole reason I've heard for this is to encourage "youth participation" but I disagree with this argument. Firstly this doesn't actually encourage youth participation in the core aim, the goal should be to get younger individuals to play the actual Olympic games not esports. Encouraging esports will only have the opposite effect as it'll just grant more prestige to them against the other sports. Additionally the Olympics has already had success promoting the games to younger people by including newer sports such as skateboarding; just keep doing that.

In short I don't think this should have the Olympic banner under it at all. CMV.