The IOC's Future Host Commission says it wants the Winter Games back in Japan, and bid movements are stirring in Sapporo and Nagano. But at home the mood is cold. A look at the cost, the corruption memories, and the climate math that keeps pointing to Sapporo.
Esports expands to a record 11 disciplines and 13 titles at September's Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. With KONAMI just signed as an official supplier, here's the full lineup—Pokémon UNITE, eFootball, Gran Turismo 7, the SF6/Tekken/KOF team event—plus why the IOC's 2027 Olympic Esports Games just unraveled.