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VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. Many sports competitions
cameras to help officials make the right call. Now goal line
is being used in international soccer. The move to goal line
follows international pressure on football's governing body, FIFA, after a missed
in the 2010 World Cup. Video replays of a game clearly
that England's Frank Lampard had scored a goal against Germany. However,
goal was denied because neither the referee nor the linesman saw
ball cross the goal line. The incident caused such an outcry
FIFA approved the development of goal line technology. That technology was
at the Confederations Cup in Brazil in June. Bjorn Linder is
chairman of GoalControl, the German-based company that won the goal line
contract for this year's Confederations Cup. His team spent weeks in
before the games as part of the FIFA certification process. He
the system has 14 cameras connected to a computer. Computers track
path of the ball in real time and reconstruct the play.
system sends a signal to the referees through their watches when
finds that the ball has crossed the goal line. Electronic eyes
the goal line may settle arguments, but the data is still
a reconstruction of reality. GoalControl claims an accuracy of plus or
five millimeters. This is well below FIFA's minimum requirement of plus
minus three centimeters. Goal line technology may become a central part
the sport. But it is still the referee ---- not the
---- that makes the final call. For VOA Learning English, I'm
Ritter.
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