Technology in Sports

We live in an age where technology keeps improving and keeps taking over more of our lives and becomes incredibly more influential in our lives it is no surprise that over the last couple of decades the sports industry has been influenced and improved by the technology that has been developed and upgraded for certain aspects of sports and fitness.

History of Technology in Sports

Throughout the past two hundred years, technology and technological advancements within the sporting world has been universal. These technologies have improved the accuracy, equality between athletes and the fan experience. The sporting environment has been massively changed for the better over time of these technologies’ upbringing.

A study in 2016 Was conducted on People that used "an online or mobile app, fitness band, fitness clip or smartwatch". This study was carried out on over 1000 people different ages starting at 15 and going above 60 years of age. As the results came in 33% of all ages,

1. 26% of 15 to 19 years
2. 39% of 20 to 29-years
3. 41% of 30 to 39 years
4. 28% of 40 to 49 years
5. 25% of 20 to 29 years
6. 21% of 60-years and older

Ref. https://www.statista.com/statistics/742448/global-fitness-tracking-and-technology-by-age/

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Athletics

In 1964 a new electronic automated timing system was introduced a photo finishing appliance which would improve the accuracy to 1/100th of a second.

In the 1980s the Transponder or the RFID was designed which uses radio frequency through a chip on the athlete that records the times when breaching antenna points.

In 2008 during the 2008 Summer Olympics a timekeeping technology fastest at the time with cameras taking photos 3,000 times a second which was three times as many as before.

Running and technology have both massively improved hand in hand both sections have got the best out of each other and enhanced each other to level that we simply could not have guessed they would have got to.

Technology has excelled immensely back in the early 1990s where we didn’t have much technology helping us in running the best we could have hoped for in that time was a timer, stopwatch and a good mathematician who could work out the speed or the pace of running whereas now we have the knowledge of how fast how far the average speed the maximum speed the highest jump and even jumping in to the athletes performance such things as the heart rate the breathing even the Perceived exertion these are just a few of the possible readable contents by technology that can improve our knowledge of fitness and the knowledge what is needed to get the best out of ourselves.

Devices in athletics

Fitbits

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So in conclusion of all these devices in all them different sports is technology helping people/athletes with their fitness, helth the ability to accomplish more are athletes getting stronger, fastter and better ? Or are these devices all for show just to feel good and have as an accessorie just as a sign of a healthy body, a popularity scheme ?