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THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON SPORT PERFORMANCE PHILIP OSAMENDE OMOREGIE University of Education, Winneba GHANA Email: dokitaomopwinneba@yahoo.com ABSTRACT Sport and exercise science like most areas of life have been affected greatly by technological advancements. It is difficult to imagine modern sports and various sub-disciplines of exercise science without technologies. The use of technologies is, without exception, tainted with frustration and ambivalence. Paradoxically, it is the omnipresence of technology that has contributed most to people's inability to fully grasp the scope and depth of its influence and also uncertainty as to what role various technological advancements play in sports. Indeed, the influx of sport technologies has profoundly changed the landscape of sport and exercise science. Importantly, technology has in many ways changed what we think of as the athletic body. Therefore, this paper examines the impact of technology on sport performance, considering the theories of technology and quest for improved performance, types of sport technologies, the advantages and disadvantages of sport technologies in modern day sports. It is recommended that those managing, handling and using sport must be equipped to make wise choices on the type and use of sport technologies that would assist in the right performance. Keywords: Performance, Sport Technology, Video Technology 1. Introduction Sport world today is getting technological by combining natural athletic talent with advanced analytics and artificial intelligent to produce the best possible outcomes on the playing field of sports. Sport excite people as a triumph of human effort, with Barr (2016) stating that behind the scenes are a number of things that go into that triumph and at the top is technology. Technology has been utilized in sport for many years in various forms and play particularly vital role especially for the elite sport. Numerous attempts to define technology have yielded such an array of descriptions that one may resigned to the idea that technology is simply not definable. On the one hand, it is synonymous with science and rational thought, encompassing every little gadget ever held in hands. Cave and Miller (2015) states that technology plays an increasing role in assisting professional athletes, amateur runners and armchair fans to engage in the sport. Technology is not just out there in the world, on the contrary, it is inside us as well. Indeed, on any given day our bloodstreams carry the remnants of ibuprofen and multivitamins, that many individuals have been technologized, or made more technologized, through artificial hearts, contact lenses, and other medical procedures. Technology is describe as any tangible, conceptual, or procedural element of modern sport and exercise science aimed at progress (Feenberg, 1999, 2003; Miah, 2004). The