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Sports have undergone a lot of changes during
the last decade. Lots of these changes are the result of the technologies that
have been integrated into sports. New technologic equipment, the best cameras
capturing the movements of the sportsmen, new shoes designed to specific surfaces,
etc. These are some of the technological stuffs that have improved sports. When
technology is used on sports, all the participants improve their performances.
The sportsmen may perform better, the judges or referees can make better
decisions and spectators can appreciate better what they want to see from
several angles and lots of times, even in slow motion. However, there is a specific
technology that it is causing controversy among the specialists and the fans of
a sport. Have you heard about Goal-line Technology on football games?
Goal-line Technology is a device that
determines when the ball has completely crossed the goal line, this device will
assist the referee in calling a goal or not. All this, as a result of the huge
amount of goals called without the ball had crossed the goal line during
important football games. What does FIFA have to say about this? Well, they
were against this implementation until last year. But now, they have already
accepted the implementation of the Goal-line Tech in order to avoid these
controversies. Indeed, since July this year, three different systems are being
tested by the FIFA (Cairos GLT System, GoalMinder and Hawk-eye). The one with
the best results will be chosen to be implemented in the next FIFA World Cup in
Brazil.
While advocates for this new technology say
that it would reduce refereeing errors, most of the fans of football remain
incredulous and don´t support the idea of including this technology into football.
The main argument to be against the implementation is that they consider the
errors of the referee to be “part of the game.” When criticizing, they also point
out that this technology would remove the beautiful enjoyment of debating such
controversial mistakes of the referees that will never allow an arrangement
among the fans. Do you think this is correct? What would yo do if you were the
FIFA´s chairman?
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If you want to see some of the thinks that this technology will avoid, watch the following video!
Great, I really found awesome that technology can help to improve sports performance. I’m not talking just about shoes or balloons, I mean in terms of judging devices. As you said before the goal-line would be an instrument that will state clearly which team has score. I remember when the “eagle-eye” came to tennis courts, from that time and up to now when there is a doubtful point the, the eagle-eye catch the exactly moment when the ball touch the ground. The problem comes when technology is use to cheat in a match, which is morally wrong.
ReplyDeleteyeah! I hope that cheating does not happen, but we can wait everything from sports. I don´t know much about all the sports, but at least in football, it is very probable that cheating keep on happening. Specially considering that the FIFA´s chairman is a gangster! hahaha... we all know that football is the biggest enterprise of the world, and that they have already cheated, specially in Italy, where Milan AC and Juventus have been found guilty of paying the referees for winning the games. Of course they were punished, but you know that money is the king of kings, so I´m pretty sure that this will keep on happenning.
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting Felipe!