Sounds great.
At least until some kid (Olympic athletes start as young as 16) is forced (pressured, coerced, misled...) by his/her country to take dangerous drugs (almost certainly without understanding the true implications — both legally and health-wise) in order to assert the dominant superiority of their "motherland" and dies as a result.
I'll stick with the imperfect rule-based system. A playing field without rules is no more level (farther, in my opinion) than one WITH rules. By your last post, you indeed validate that even when people are breaking the rules, MOST are doing the same, so it's level. Lance is still an amazing athlete and has done great fundraising for the cancer machine, but I bet even he would agree that "no rules" would be far more dangerous as cyclists would have strokes and heart attacks mid-race causing massive wipeouts and unintended harm to others, as previously mentioned.
Mark
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