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Re:World’s No 1 bridge player suspended after failing a drug... by CamperBob2 on Saturday March 02, 2019 @03:27PM (#19291011)
If the bridge association is blindly adopting rules meant to govern physical athletic performances -- or if the IOC is forcing them to do so -- then the people responsible are obviously a bunch of morons. That conclusion seems unlikely to be the right one, so I'll stand by my point until more information comes to light. I'm not professionally qualified to argue it either way.
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Re:World’s No 1 bridge player suspended after failing a drug... by benj111 on Saturday March 02, 2019 @03:40PM (#19291065)
"Kari-Anne Opsal, president of the Norwegian Bridge Federation, said the drugs were “not performance enhancing”."

So I don't think its reasonable to go looking to performance enhancement as a reason.

To me it does appear that they're following rules meant for actual athletes. How much choice they had I don't know.

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