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I don't understand what your saying. Can you sort of clarify it?

Do you think video games should be in the olympics?

Well, it would be cool watching people own in Halo...

that would be the best

The olympics is a physical competition, I just think there should be annual game tournaments. It shouldn't be in the olympics though.

No, no, no, no, no. First off, Olympics are physical, like thoadthetoad said. Second off, there are ALREADY gaming competitions.

As much as I like to play video games, I am against the idea of them being in the Olympics. It would be really boring watching people play them and all of events in the Olympics are PHYSICAL sports. Even wii sports doesn't take enough physical effort compared to any of the events in the Olympics. And some countries don't play video games as much as other countries do. Video games aren't popular all around the world.

I wouldn't mind if they were put in the Olympics. It would be actually sort of interesting to watch. The only problem is how would they decide on a game?

Second off, there are ALREADY gaming competitions.

Video games aren't popular all around the world.

This is just ridiculous. Video game is not a freaking sport, its a time passer.
You dont let guitar hero players join your band.

Actually Total all sports in the olympics have to be played professionally in a certain number of nations to make it.

Over my dead body.

The Olympic games are meant to be the traditional sports that have existed for a long time. They are the most athletic of the sports and games. If video games enter the Olympics, that would be ridiculous and pitiful.

everyone is dead on with this.. this is a ridiculous proposal.. no games do not belong in the olympics

I have to agree that video games don't belong in the Olympics. It's fine even good that there are video game competitions but they jsut don't belong in the Olympics.

Ya, video games in th Olympics sounds like a silly idea. Even if video games were popular all over the world, people all over the world do not play the same games so they wouldn't be able to compete. Also, Video games are not physical competitions, they are more of a time passing game like chess. They don't have board games in the Olympics, and those have been around much longer. As with other things like Poker, video games could have their own competitions, but not in the Olympics.

To get into the Olympics an event has to be recognised as a sport by the IOC. There is no way in hell that videogames would ever be ecognised as a sport by the governing body and why should it be. Case Closed.