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Sascha L. Schmidt   Editor

21st Century Sports How Technologies Will Change Sports in the Digital Age

Future of Business and Finance

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Sascha L. Schmidt Editor

21st Century Sports How Technologies Will Change Sports in the Digital Age

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Editor Sascha L. Schmidt Chair/Center for Sports and Management WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management Dusseldorf, Germany

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Foreword

We live in a time in which society is changing more rapidly than ever before. This can be experienced especially in the wide field of digital transformation, which is running through all areas of life and increasingly influences our behavior. Digital transformation has strongly influenced our life in general. The insights we gain from the digital world raise new questions especially when technology starts to penetrate the living organism of sport. Prior to my time in the management of a profess