[avar]

The difference is that this was during practice sessions.

The "unsportsmanlike" aspects isn't about the difference in intelligence gathered, but avoiding the need for every team to run counter-surveillance operations.

[bobthepanda]

Right.

Sports is definitively not war, and not all is fair. Otherwise why ban doping, or disapprove of Tanya Harding getting her competitor kneecapped, etc.

[vundercind]

That’s the trouble—it’s zero-sum waste that becomes mandatory if it’s permitted.