Does the use of technology make new world records less impressive than those of the past?

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Imagine you are an athlete, and you are playing the most important match of your life, just for the results to be skewed for viewer entertainment. Now, do you think that the audience deserves to be interested more than you deserve a fair game? In my opinion, people shouldn't play sports purely for other people's entertainment. If sports were to be rigged or biased, not only would it invalidate the skill of the players and athletes, many fans, while entertained, would be furious. Personally, if I were to play sports on the world stage, I would want to leave a lasting impact, and if the results of high-stake games were skewed and unfair, then wouldn't that affect how I was perceived by the world? An athlete's career depends on the outcome of games and their performance, and if we were to allow entertainment in sports to come first, not only would my hard work simply feel useless, the morals and idea of it is just wrong. I understand that most people do watch sports for entertainment, but I doubt any of them would be angry at the referee calling more exact calls. Not only would the team who's win would be 'more' exciting feel enabled to do whatever as they know when it comes to ref calls the calls will be in their favor, the rules of the game would collapse and, personally I wouldn't even be entertained at that point. Overall, fair play should take priority over the experience of the fans.

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