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The need of technology for better sport games
Today the world, sports do not go together without technology. With the growing development of new technologies, they have always tried to be implemented in the sport. Because the technology is something no other sport can an undeniable truth. Or so they say. Because the people are great, people are obliged to make mistakes. It is because we are human, we are not robots that we make mistakes, but they do robots only when dysfunctional. This is especially emphasized in the sport where the human eye can often deceive their owners, especially the judges, but also players, coaches and fans. That is why these days there are many discussions about the installation of video technology in sport, especially football. What does technology really in competition?
Here I would emphasize that sport has to use technology, such as tennis and cricket, to name a few. It helped a lot of the judges, to minimize and to correct some mistakes they make. But apparently not all the problems solved in this way. Players who have played in a long time and have not grown up with the nature of the technologies are not convinced that it works well. This presumption is probably understandable, because when they were first starting their professional sporting careers, they are not enough to even dream of something like this would exist. But this technology has been tested time and again, and skeptical players like Roger Federer, have learned to live with and accept it, but probably not so reluctantly.
This technology is used in the sport is called Hawk-Eye line-calling system Hawk-eye or just too short. It was invented by a British computer scientist Paul Hawkins. It is now used in tennis, where six or more cameras located around the court with each other, keeping the ball flight. So the six or more cameras combine their own views and a 3D representation of the trajectory of the ball. For tennis, or virtually any other sport, it means the last line calls can be quickly and accurately monitored. This is not always used in tennis, though. For example, the French Open not to use the technology, because the tournament is played on clay courts, so print out the ball on the ground can easily be seen. Maybe one day this will change, because you can not always be 100% sure that you are looking at the right print.
These days there is much talk about the introduction of this technology to the sport football. Proponents of this idea is particularly high after South Africa FIFA World Cup 2010, where many of the mistakes that referees have done (one granted Argentine goals, although the player was offside, England targets are not being seen in a crucial moment). However, judges are only human, and they are subject to errors, because they can not help it, so I do not think all these critics were unfair to make them. On the other hand, a recent statement by UEFA president Michel Platini, who is not enthusiastic about the goal line technology, said this football reduced to a video game.
I do not think the other sports that this technology has been reduced to a video game. Furthermore, he also recognizes that the courts can make mistakes and that many cameras on the field who can catch questionable moments. So why not help the football or another sport, to see clearly that these questionable times and resolve without making mistakes. Or is it better to hear a lot of critics every time something happens? I’m sure the judges would kind of help so she could not be blamed for everything and would not have to listen to all the crap people say about them the other day, or worse.