Unfortunately life is full of loopholes. Politicians fill their expenses boots with them, motorists pay expensive lawyers to exploit them. Don't we all get so pissed off when politicians tell us that what they've done falls within the rules?
If you don't want loopholes then be clever enough to work out the consequences, and, listen when folk tell you that there IS a loophole.
Is there any rule in any sport that says that a competitor has to strive to win at all cost all of the time?