It's no secrets that eSports have slowly started to become more widely accepted as actual sports, but what about card games? Xiran Jay Zhao is looking to test the limits of what's considered a sport by petitioning that the trading card game Yu-Gi-Oh! be added to the Olympics. Whether or not this petition was made purely as a meme is unknown, but it has gained a surprising amount of traction. Since the creation fo the petition, it has garnered thousands of signatures from fans all around the world, to the point where some are wondering if this could truly become a reality.

The Tokyo Olympics are underway, and the influx of video game music present is likely part of what sparked the petition to make Yu-Gi-Oh! an Olympic sport. While it's easy to dismiss this as silly, it's clear that a lot of people support the idea and it does bring up an interesting discussion about what a sport is.

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Currently the petition has almost 11,000 supporters, and is well on its way to being one of the most signed petitions on Change.org. In their description of the petition, Xiran Jay Zhao explains how Yu-Gi-Oh! fits the bill to be an Olympic Sport. According to them, it requires dexterity to draw cards, athleticism to play the cards, and endurance "when you're in round 10 of a [Yu-Gi-Oh Championship Series]." Competitive Yu-Gi-Oh! is nothing new, but competitive Yu-Gi-Oh! on a world stage as big as the Olympics would be unheard of.

Obviously the arguments claiming that the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game requires dexterity, athleticism, and endurance are a bit silly, but it is worth discussing what makes something a sport. For quite some time, sports were assumed to require physical  exertion, and the Oxford Dictionary describes a sport as "an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or a team competes against another or others for entertainment." Still, despite eSports being somewhat lacking in the physical exertion factor, they are gaining traction as true sports now. Taking that clause out, Yu-Gi-Oh! definitely qualifies as "an activity involving skill in which an individual competes against another for entertainment."

It is something of a slippery slope though. If Yu-Gi-Oh! is an Olympic sport, why not other card games? Why should the International Olympic Committee choose Yu-Gi-Oh! over Magic The Gathering or even the Pokemon Trading Card Game? Whether or not anything will come from this petition remains to be seen, but it will be interesting to watch as the number of signers continues to grow.

Yu-Gi-Oh is not an Olympic sport (yet).

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