TECHNOLOGY

Technology is yet again a positive concept because we are able to have a more enjoyable and professional  game even if we aren't elite footballers. Technology has improved the soccer balls and soccer boots and  have also boosted the game in its interest at a personal level as people want to be having the new technologies  to improve their game. High ankle cut boots , better soccer balls , light weight jerseys and artificial turfs all contribute to a better game and performances by individuals. Technology is constantly improving soccer so that they can be the best player they can be which is what sport is about . Technology definitely  improves the performance of players. These are the new technological designed soccer boots

With the use of technology fans are now able to watch and participate.Technology has been a positive effect on soccer because fans are able to participate from home without having to fork out a lot of money to go to stadium. For example in the World cup i have been watching most of the games live on SBS which is a massive transition , from 40 years ago where watching the games live or on demand was a luxury or not possible. It simply means i can now follow my team wherever i am. This technology is a definite positive because it improves the sport by the fan base and gives more interest in the sport so that people all over the world can share and enjoy together the soccer world.

Cycling used to be very much a sport of feel and arbitrary judgement , riding a certain distance or climbing up a particular hill so many times was enough to prepare people for a race.Along came heart-monitors and people could train with in particular heart-rate zones , but this was still only analyzing what effort was doing to the body , rather than what the effort was doing for the actual performance.   When power meters came along , it allowed cyclists to train in accordance  with how much power they were pushing through the pedals. Having the ability to train at consistent  level with the readings appearing on a screen in handle bars meant that consistent power could be achieved , something that is vital in the modern day peloton. Team Sky may not have been the first team to use power meters , but the way way they utilize them changed the way that every professional team trained  and has totally changed  the landscape of cycling from a sport based on fe...

Athletes in sports require speed and stamina to perform in competition , they need to be able to do so with minimum resistance.This has been recognized across several sports today. From the materials used in swim outfits to the curves on a Formular 1 car , the  understanding of aero -dynamics and hydrodynamics has allowed the performance of the athletes to minimize our resistance and increase speed. The use of aerodynamics as a decider between winning and losing was shown emphatically in the 1989 Tour de France final time  trial where Greg LeMond sat in second place 58 seconds , behind Laurent Fignon. He adopted aerodynamic handlebars and helmet , while Fignon did not. LeMond eventually beat Fignon by 58 seconds , winning the three-week event by only 8 seconds. Later analysis through wind-tunnel data showed that the use of the bars alone gained LeMond 1 minute and the helmet 16 seconds. Essentially if Fignon had adopted this new technology , he would have won the event.

The ability to analyze millions of data points has meant that sports teams and athletes can look at the tiniest successes or failures within any performance and either recreate or remove particular conditions with the use of technology. It has meant that everything   that an athlete does can be interconnected and assessed to divide a performance into its individual elements ,rather  than as a simple whole.It has been the basis of the current obsession with marginal gains that coaches are interested in. If they can find a 0,1% improvement in any part of a performance , then this will give them a slight advantage , but if they can find this number in several areas they can add up to a significant improvement. It was this technology that led the British Olympic team to much success during the past three Olympics. This technology is seen through the use of data analysis, as it allows for the tinniest details of an athletic performance to be studied . Also seeing where small ...

Tests to detect illegal drugs are not an individual technology as much as a collection of technologies that has changed almost every sport in the world. Until 1999 , there were small-scale ,uncoordinated drug tests across individuals sports, but these were fairly easily bypassed. In many sports , drug  abuse to improve performance was endemic . Since then , the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has helped to push forward the use of drug -testing technologies to help fight the use of performance    enhancing drugs in sport. This has levelled the  playing field in many sports and helped to weed out some of the biggest drugs cheats in world sport,from Lance Armstrong to Dwayne Chambers. It has given faith in  performances back to the athletes too. Before , when an outstanding individual performance occurred ,many treated it with a degree of suspicion. Today , thanks to this technology , people many have doubts , but athletes can point to reliable drugs testing to sho...