Games
Ploys
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In the Olympic Games, the old rules stating that competitors had to be "amateurs" led to some rather transparent ploys wherein full-time, state-sponsored athletes were listed as being students, soldiers, police officers, etc., despite them not really being engaged in those occupations.
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