The Week Junior - Science + Nature
Technology helps everyone and makes sport fairer
Within the rules, athletes should do anything they can to make themselves better, including using technology. It creates a more exciting competition and improves sport as a whole.
Thanks to technology, athletes with disabilities have been able to take part in events from which they would otherwise be excluded.
High-tech equipment has always been a large part of sport. As technology improves, players will naturally adopt new and better gear.
Technology helps referees enforce the rules and makes games fairer.