Debate on Whether Sports Should Make Full Use of the Technology Available

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Debate on Whether Sports Should Make Full Use of the Technology Available

Technology for sports is advancing, so why do sports choose not to use

technology for many decisions? Many bad decisions lead to arguments as

well as many teams and individuals losing. There are many sports that

do use technology and many more that don’t.

Most sports that do use technology are all kinds of racing eg: car,

horse riding, running, swimming and cycling as well as all athletic

sports.

I am going to be discussing sports that don’t make full use of

technology. Many ball games don’t take the advantage of the technology

that is available. One of them is cricket. The umpire has to look out

for many things just for one ball. When the bowler is bowling the

umpire has to see that the bowler doesn’t step on the return crease,

and then looking out for the no-ball on the popping crease, then

looking where the ball pitches at ninety miles an hour to make a

decision (if there is one to make) on LBW. The technology of Hawk-eye

and Snickometer is possible but only for audience on the television to

view. Why don’t the umpires get to use it? It would solve a lot of

arguments and disagreements. But then what are umpires meant for- to

judge. If there is the technology of Hawk-eye and Snickometer the

umpires would just use it all the time and not do their job.

In football there have been some incidents where the ball has passed

the goal line and it has not been given as a goal, by the referee. For

example Tottenham against Manchester united. There are two types of

technologies that have been considered to be used in football. One of

them is called the goal line technology this means that the football

would contain a microchip inside, so when it crosses the goal-line the

referee is alerted by a bleeper-type system. This is already going to

be tested out in Septembers under 17 world cup. The second technology

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