Artificial intelligence has quietly moved from the sidelines to the centre of elite sport. It now helps coaches read performance, flags injury risk before it lands, speeds up the tightest officiating calls, and even writes the commentary on the highlights you watch afterwards. This is a clear-eyed guide to what AI in sport actually does today, where it's still finding its feet, and why the technology is only as good as the judgement of the people using it.

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