Hawk-Eye, the ball-tracking technology company, has held talks with the International Rugby Board about providing a replacement to the controversial television match official system ahead of the 2015 World Cup.
Hawk-Eye, which was first used as a broadcast tool to analyse decisions in cricket, has expanded into a variety of sports including tennis, snooker, Australian Rules and goal-line systems in football, hopes to convince the world governing body that investment in its vision processing technology would dramatically improve the TMO system.
The disclosure comes in the wake of fierce criticism of the role of the TMO following the Aviva Premiership final between Northampton Saints and Saracens when it took four minutes of review to award the winning try to Northampton while two other tries were disallowed…
South Africa Today Sport – Sport News Rugby