From Wimbledon to VAR, is tech making sport less dramatic?

“Drama is a player screaming and facing a challenge, watching the crowd the screen and waiting for the hawks to make a decision, all this drama is lost now.”

David Pailes describes a scene that plays several times as a judge of Wimbledon’s calligraphy – he will not witness the tournament again.

As with many other sports that adopted technology, all England Club Goodbye to the judges of the human calligraphy Next summer, after 147 years, in the name of “maximum accuracy”.

But does this risk reduce the drama that Mr. Pelis remembers with pride that she is involved – and which many of us like to watch?

He says: “It is sad that we will not return as two lines.” “The game continued, but it never said.”

He held the position of a line and referee in Wimbledon for 22 years, Calling the lines when Roger Federer won the first Grand Grand championship in 2003.

While he is sad to see the line of calligraphy they go, he says it is difficult to argue with logic.

“Basically, we have a person and technology calling the same line. An electronic line invitation can cancel the human eye. So, why do we need a calligraphy judge to make a call at all?”

Of course, even before Wimbledon announced This week, technology played a big role in the tournament through Hawk-Eye and the ball tracking system, and the organizers follow the example that others have set.

It was announced last year that the ATP tour The judge of the human calligraphy will be replaced by an electronic system of 2025. The United States Open and the Australian opening. The French open will be the only one She left the main championship with human calligraphy judges.

as The BBC Tennis correspondent is the specifiedThe players will intermittently complain of calling the electronic line, but there was a consensus for a period of time that technology is now more accurate and consistent than humans.

Mr. Pailes admits that there is a “high degree of confidence in the electronic line”.

He points out: “The only frustration that the player can show in himself to not win this point.”

Whether technology is making one thing – but if it is worth another matter.

“Her first feeling hearing the news about Wimbledon’s linear judges was sad,” says Dr. Anna Fitzpatrick, who played in Wimbledon between 2007 and 2013.

“A human element in sport is one of the things that attracts us,” the lecturer in sports performance and analysis at Luburu University told BBC.

Although she realizes that technology can improve athletes’ performance, it always hopes to preserve it.

Of course, tennis are far from being embracing technology.

Cricket is another sport where it plays a big role – and according to Dr. Tom Web, an expert in the responsibility of sports at the University of Coventry – he was driven by broadcasters.

He says that once the televised coverage showed sports moments in a way that the referee could not see, it led to calls for change in the game.

“I think we need to be careful,” he says to the British Broadcasting Corporation.

In particular, he says, we need to think carefully about any aspect of making human decisions automatically.

He argues that in football, goal line technology has been accepted because, such as electronic fonts calls, it is a measure – it is either a goal or not.

However, many people feel frustrated by the VAAR Video System (VAR), as it took very long decisions and admirers on the field do not realize what is happening.

He adds: “The problem with VAR is that it does not necessarily depend on the accuracy of technology. It still depends on individual and subjective rule, and how the laws of the game are interpreted.”

Of course, there is a temptation to think about technology as something new in sports.

Anything but, according to Professor Steve Hack of Sheffield Halham University, who says sport has always evolved with today’s innovations, even with Greek adaptation of the enemy’s enemy race in the old Olympic Games.

“Return directly from the beginning of sport, it was a scene, but we also wanted to be fair.

“This is what these techniques revolve around. This is the trick that we must reform.”

Technology still adds to the sports scene – Think of 360 degrees photography used to clarify Dramatic conclusion To the final of 100 meters for men in the Olympics this summer.

Although some traditional functions, such as line judges, may disappear, technology also feeds the creation of other jobs – especially when it comes to data.

Take an example of the OPTA sports analysis system, which allows both athletes and fans to have data flows to measure performance, a process accelerated by artificial intelligence (AI).

Although it may not be the same as the emotional tennis player in a line judge, her advocates argue that he allows more intense delivery of its kind, as people are able to learn more about the sport and the players who love them.

Of course, repeated differences on systems like VAR bring a lot of technology to obtain heart pumping.

“People love sports because of the drama,” says Patrick Lucy, chief statistical scientist, says the company behind Opta.

“Technology is a kind of making it stronger.”