I disagree. Sports always occurs under a framework of rules that are agreed upon by the participants. If someone is participating technically according to the rules, but not by the spirit of the rules, its fair to clarify the rules to exclude behavior, ability, or other qualities that are not agreeable to the other participants.

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Pathwork. Today's rules are too subjective. We can measure most of the traits that can put people at a disadvantage with one another.

The point of sports is to establish rules and then play by them

yep, and they are all completely arbitrary. We can make them up as we go. My only point is that now we have the technology to measure almost everything that defines an athtlete. We can do much better in defining fair competitions.

True, but ultimately its up to the players which game they want to play. Much like whether we use fiat and bitcoin, or twitter and nostr