The Impact Of Modern Technology On Fair Outcomes In Sport

Question 1

How have electronic starting and finishing machines in athletics effected outcomes

Answer 1

1. Before smoke would be fired for the people to start the stopwatch and athletes closer to the pistol could hear before others
2. Modern electronic devises have buzzers go off at the same time for each athlete and photo finishes to see who won

Question 2

How has goal line technology effected sport

Answer 2

1. A method that determines whether the ball has completely crossed the line
2. Improves the number of correct decisions
3. Can be expensive so unacceptable to LEDC’s

Question 3

Improvements in the detection of doping

Answer 3

1. WADA have a £17.4m budget to fund research on illegal PED’s
2. Considered not enough as drugs constantly changing to go undetected

Question 4

Name 3 pros of TMO

Answer 4

1. Can create tension
2. Increase proportion of accurate decisions
3. Improved accountability of officials

Question 5

Name 3 disadvantages of TMO

Answer 5

1. A target for match fixing
2. Crowd/players may influence decisions if replays on big screen
3. Slows the game down and ruins excitement