Can technology make sports more equal, or does it only widen the gap between competitors?

Yes, technology can make sports more equal. Technology in sports should only be used for the fairness of the match, not for the benefit of each team, not for them to greatly improve so quickly. If you improve in a sport, it's great, but if you improve and progress too fast, there will be no one else out there to rival you, no one for you to compete with. A sport is meant to have competition, competition that isn't rigged by the advancement of technology in the sport or the manipulation of recent technology just for the advantage in the early stages of the sport. The technology should be there to make the match fair, to catch any mistakes the referees' couldn't catch with their naked eyes. It should be there to help the game be fair to each side so there isn't any sort of bias towards a specific team in a specific sport.

To use technology is to use it wisely. Using it too much will make you lose touch with the traditional and original ways, to be fair too reliant on a device powered by electricity isn't something beneficial either, if one day the technology isn't there to help you play the sport or to coach you through the match, you'll be stuck in the trenches, waiting for it to come back, whilst your opponents who stuck to using the traditional ways that costed the effort you couldn't bear to spare, goes off without you. Another thing that the technology should be used for instead of manipulating the outcome of a game, is to help protect the players from harm and danger.

In conclusion, I think that technology does make sports more equal, and it does not widen the gap by that much between competitors. It is only right for those who have the resources to use it, you can't ban someone from getting something just because it's unfair.