Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), hopes that next year’s Paris 2024 Games will serve to “unite in peaceful competition” for a world in which “people are exhausted and tired of the hostility, hostility and hatred they face in every area of your life.”
In an end-of-year message According to the IOC, the German leader hopes that the Paris edition will “Open a new era of the Olympic Games: younger, more inclusive, more urban, more sustainable” and remember that they will be the first “with full gender equality”.
Our expectations for these Olympic Games are shared by billions of people. In these difficult times we are living in, people all over the world are exhausted and tired of the animosity, animosity and hatred they face in every area of their lives.
Deep in our hearts we all long for something that connects us. Something that connects us despite our differences. Something that gives us hope. Something that inspires us to face problems peacefully. Something that brings out the best in us. We hope that the Paris Olympic Games in 2024 will unite the whole world in peaceful competition.
The IOC decided two weeks ago to approve the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes who still have time to qualify, as long as they do not support the war in Ukraine, but without their national symbols and under the name Neutral Individual Athletes. Teams from these countries are not admitted.
Bach asks in his message that the Olympic Movement “remains united” and opposes “the attempts to fragment world sport according to political criteria.”
Even after the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, we will remain united in our mission to make the world a better place through sport.
Bach thinks artificial intelligence (AI) and electronic sports “offer enormous opportunities” for the Olympic Movement. “For this reason,” he says, “the IOC eSports Commission is exploring the creation of the eSports Olympics.”
Whatever the eSports Olympics look like, our parameters and conditions are set. We remain true to our values: the Olympic values of peace, respect, non-discrimination and solidarity.
It also commits to “harnessing the transformative power of AI to support athletes and advance the development of sport.”
“It’s about identifying talent, creating individual training methods, making referees more objective and personalizing the individual viewing experience for billions of Olympic fans. The possibilities are endless and the risks must be limited,” he clarifies.
He concludes his message by recalling that Paris was the birthplace of Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the IOC and restorer of the Games, and also “the city of light, the city of love and the city of a new era of Olympics. ”“.
He hopes to see there, he adds, “an unforgettable celebration of the joy of sport, a celebration of our shared humanity.”
(With information from EFE)
Source: La Neta Neta
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