Right - however the results would still be skewed, which was the original point. The only thing I've been arguing for is that everyone be put on equal footing - to use the analogy above, for the race organiser to specifically come out and say that it either is or isn't okay for professional runners to participate.
It's not the practice itself which most of us object to - it is the way that the muds are not being compared on an equal footing. That has now been addressed, and so hopefully the results will start to become less skewed in the future.
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