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A general guideline for rule crafting that I have seen been important in sport over and over and over again is:

Never disallow something you cannot enforce. Doing so causes people to have to make the choice of losing or being a liar. This is in part how cycling became such a mess, when there was an era where either you do EPO and lie, or retire. Because EPO was not allowed but could not yet be detected.



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