Forum SportAccord "The sport needs to evolve"

"If we want to be as successful in the future than in the past, we must be proactive, we need to avoid potential problems, rather than trying to solve them afterwards." These are the words of IOC President Thomas Bach, at the opening of the 8th edition of SportAccord Forum, held this year in Lausanne, Switzerland, dedicated to innovation and technology in sport ceremony. Thomas Bach, "sport is now too important to ignore society changes it. We all know that we need to feel some changes. "

The five-time Olympic champion Nadia Comaneci, whose performance at the Olympics in Montreal in 1976 led to a revolution in the gym, remember that all forms of setbacks or mishaps can lead to impaired vision in his discipline: "When I was disputing the Games in 1976, the scoreboard was not ready to show the perfection because no one thought it was possible. As everyone remembers, when 1.00 was posted, it was very confusing for everyone and for me. I think that's what made the story: that 1.00 is displayed rather than 10. "

Coverage of sporting events has become a major challenge for the industry. And it is not just the most popular sports. That is why the President of SportAccord, Marius Vizer, who has 94 international sports federations under its aegis, did not hide his satisfaction by announcing a partnership with Euronews: "I think we offer a new opportunity to sport and new gateway to a certain sector of the audience can follow the sport as he was not really possible until now. "

But nowadays, in parallel with the improvement of the television broadcasting of sports events, sports officials also think the attendance at stadiums and playgrounds. Interactivity and involvement of fans to help pack the arenas, said Paul Hawkins, the inventor of Hawkeye, the computer system officially used in many sports such as cricket, tennis and hurling to visually follow the path the ball: "I do not know why certain generations or many people say," All good inventions were found. Nothing remains to be invented. "Clearly, it would be stupid to think that. I still have a lot of outstanding ideas. "

However, even in the development of innovative technologies, we must follow the rules. According to Professor Jan-Anders Manson, this process should take place on the playing field with clear boundaries that should not be crossed: "I always see the sport as a playground that borders. The rules are in one, the other is security. When we talk to Olympic sports, we must be very careful with this. On the one hand, the limit of the playground is a tradition of the sport. On the other hand, this should be good for business, development and new technologies. "

"International sports require changes," said IOC President Thomas Bach. SportAccord and this forum has provided many ideas about the kinds of changes that we can and must expect in the near future.