There's an interesting example from the most unlikely of sports - curling. In 2015, Hardline Curling launched a radical new design of curling broom called the

There's an interesting example from the most unlikely of sports - curling. In 2015, Hardline Curling launched a radical new design of curling broom called the icePad. Their broom can alter ice with tremendous efficiency, allowing players to make previously impossible shots. Many players described the icePad broom as "like having a remote control for the stone". Leading teams voluntarily agreed to a temporary moratorium on the new style of broom. Following an international summit on the issue, the decision was made to standardise on a single type of traditional broom fabric. The consensus was that the new broom technology had fundamentally changed the nature of the sport for the worse, diminishing the importance of skill and athleticism. http://www.tsn.ca/inside-curling-s-broom-controversy-1.381050 http://www.tsn.ca/inside-curling-s-broom-controversy-1.38105... http://www.worldcurling.org/ss2016-update http://www.worldcurling.org/ss2016-update