Lesson 9 What Makes Sports More Exciting
고교영어 교과서 고1 시사 박준언 9과 본문 음원자료입니다. 열공하시고 원하시는 목표 이루시길 바래요~~ 텍스트 파일은 하단의 pdf 파일을 다운받으시면 출력하실 수 있습니다.
Sports and Technology Go Hand in Hand
Every athlete tries to run faster, jump higher, or become stronger.
Since the late twentieth century, athletes have been actively taking advantage of the progress in science and technology to achieve their goals.
Now technology is taking sports to another level.
Technology affects how players are trained, how rules are enforced, how audiences enjoy the games, and how the public exercises.
At the start of the 2014-2015 National Basketball Association (NBA) season, the Golden State Warriors were not viewed as an elite team.
They won their last championship 40 years ago.
Then something happened―they began to win, game after game.
Their defense improved, their offense improved, and, most of all, fewer players suffered from injuries.
Everybody wondered: What had happened to them?
It was a new training suit that changed the team.
It was not just an ordinary suit, of course.
The new suit was a smart suit that was connected to a mobile app.
The suit comes in three parts: the top, the pants, and a plastic core.
The top and the pants have several sets of sensors for each of the major muscle groups.
Inside the top and the pants, there is a pocket that holds the core.
The core reads all the data from the sensors and sends it to a smartphone app.
The app lets coaches see in real time which muscle groups are being used during practice.
After practice, the athlete can also review his performance.
The use of smart clothes greatly helped the Warriors' coaches improve their training program.
"I like especially that I can see the players' exhaustion before injury occurs," one of the coaches said.
The Warriors continued to win during the 2014-2015 season and went on to win the NBA championship.
Technology is also helping to settle possible disputes over referees' calls during games.
This trend was promoted when FIFA, the world's largest soccer association, decided to adopt goal-line technology for the 2014 World Cup.
Traditionally, FIFA allowed the referees absolute power on the administration of the game.
Any errors by the referees were viewed as part of the game.
When a referee's call was disputed, both players and audiences often brought complaints about this policy.
When the disputed call was about a goal, the complaints sometimes became violent.
It was goal-line technology that settled any disputes over goals.
A system using this technology employs as many as 14 cameras that capture a ball from various angles, showing exactly where the ball is at a certain time.
The moment a ball passes the goal line, signals are sent to a watch worn by the referee.
The adoption of goal-line technology forever ruled out the possibility of disputes over goals.
In addition to the improvement of players' training and referees' calls, technology is helping sports fans enjoy games at another level.
Virtual reality is one of the most promising technologies in this area.
In the fall of 2015, a group of soccer fans in Portugal had a chance to watch a virtual reality game between their favorite teams.
They sat in a movie theater, but felt as if they were part of the game, thanks to the virtual reality gear they wore.
Several 360-degree cameras installed on the field sent videos from various angles to a broadcasting station.
The station created virtual reality screens out of the videos and then sent them to the gear the fans were wearing.
The fans were even able to change perspectives, choosing to be either part of the audience, part of a team, or be on the field itself.
It was as if they were actually in the game.
After the successful test of the virtual reality broadcast of the soccer game, the NBA decided to allow fans to watch live games using virtual reality on their smartphones.
Other major sports are expected to follow this trend.
As for a new way of working out, using virtual reality technology, an Italian company has recently released an innovative product.
It is an indoor bike combined with virtual reality.
The rider mounts the bike, puts on the virtual reality gear, and starts riding.
The rider then feels as if he is actually riding on a road of his choice, whether a street in a major city, or a calm mountain path, and all without leaving home.
As technology develops, sports will become both more enjoyable and more exciting in many ways.
That will give people more choices about how they play or enjoy sports.
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