Technology

• FAMES

  Facilities

  Accessibility

  Monitoring/Motivation

  Equipment

  Safety
• Facilities increasing participation

  Astro turf + flood lights
• Accessibility increasing participation

  Swimming chairs for disabled
• Monitoring/Motivation increasing participation

  FitBits = increase in steps —> increase in motivation
• Equipment increasing participation

  Tennis rackets bigger
• 2 ways technology reduces participation 


  Phones are a distraction/can just play Fifa or VR instead

  People think technology has made sport too strict therefore less enjoyable
• Technology aiding elite performance 


  Intermittent Hypoxic Chambers to replicate conditions

  VO2 Max tests

  VR bobsleigh simulation
• Tour de France

  Fair = drug testing with technology

  Unfair = able to mask drugs with technology
• 100 m

  Fair = timers (accuracy)

  Unfair = false starts for 100th of a second
• Football

  Fair = VAR

  Unfair = angles/bias
• Tennis

  Fair = Hawkeye
• Technology increasing pressure on officials

  If they make the decision that upsets the majority they can get threatened

  There is so many things happening all at once (buzzer button, ear piece, watching the actual game)