Hi, as the wording implies, those riders are ineligible, ie you can't pick them. If a team does pick one of those riders, they will be notified if it's before the publication deadline and given the chance to fill the spot with another rider. If it's discovered after the publication deadline that someone chose an ineligible rider, that rider will be removed from the team without replacement.
The rule is stated that way to avoid edge cases where a rider might hypothetically be provisionally suspended but with an ambiguous case. If this happened with a high-impact rider, the game could be strongly affected by the timing and outcome of the resolution of the case, and which teams guess correctly as to that resolution. So the choice is simply taken away for everyone, you can't pick those riders. This is more in fitting with the spirit of the original rules of the CQ game vis-a-vis doping as a special case to be regulated, rather than a factor in the ordinary course of racing (illness, crashes, etc).
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