During Gymnastics and Olympic Diving, spectators learned that judges don’t use slow-motion cameras to review athletes when they compete. Things that move in fast motion or subtle bugs that can’t be seen in real time, so those points can’t be deducted from your scores. Still, those mistakes are real, they happened and they should be counted, but they are not. Why? Simple, because that is how it has always been done in the Olympics, and yet such excuses seem preposterous today and; “We’re doing it this way, because that’s the way it’s always been done!” Sounds like a lame excuse for those who are afraid of change by supporting the Status Quo.

What should we do? Well first it would be fair to get rid of all the judges and use a slow motion optical recognition system for judging, the scores will come up faster and it will remove the human element, the human element of cheating judges for example. . Or what about the curse of the first athlete in competition, judges have been known to become more relaxed about scoring as time goes on in the match, giving the advantage to the lucky vaulter or gymnast who goes last or next to last in the match. competence. .

You see, the Olympics are about fairness: no cheating, no doping, no interference from other athletes, and in the spirit of that fairness motive, let’s fix an obvious problem and save the Olympic Committee from embarrassment the next time we catch someone cheating. be it coach, athlete or judge.

Okay, now that you’re with me on this, here’s what I propose. Have 100 judges watch slow-motion videos of divers and gymnasts and ask them to rate those videos and show where and why they scored points out of a perfect score, training the artificial intelligent video optical recognition system for flawless judging.

Viewers at home watching TV can watch instant replays and see exactly what the computerized artificial intelligence software judge saw. There will be fewer disputes and fairer play and the best athletes will win and there will be no more ambiguity in judgments. If I were a gymnast or diver at the Olympic level, I would applaud such a system to keep events fair and would trust such a system to allow the best man or woman to win. Please consider all this and think about it.