Review of the article "Wearable tech will transform sport – but will it also ruin athletes' personal lives?"

The article written by Jared Lindzon tells that wearable technology is used in sport field to analyze athletic performance in details for performance, training improvement, injuries reducing and better fan experience. However, it makes a worry for athletes about whether it will ruin their personal life.

It has been investigated that the profit of wearable technology in sports field is greatly uptrend from $1.9 billion in 2013 to $2.8 billion in 2019. New innovations adapted into arenas are more convenient for decision making by coaches and managers with training data. In addition, it will be more interesting for fans to get close to sports game by the sight of technology data. Some business institutions like Catapult and Adidas are devoting themselves into wearable devices and sportswear for sport facts and figures. Wearable technology continues to expand in this professional and competitive life of athletes.

Brian Bulcke is a defensive lineman in Canadian Football League, and he also provides mentorship in sport innovation program. In his opinion, it is inevitable for athletes to get involved into proliferation of technology. New technologies are going to change the current sports environment, and he is intended to be the early ones for balancing the concerns over the effect brought by new techs for athletes’ personal life. Concerning the blur between personal life and professional life of athletes, both Bulcke and technology providers admit that there is a line between workplace and personal privacy.