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@Jimmy_Fingers
I'm just saying that advances will be made continually within the technology of cycling. You can either adopt a luddite approach and try to block or stall technological advances or embrace them. At the end of the day the pressure to use the technology comes from the manufacturers who sponsor and supply the teams, so they will use it, whether they like it or not, as we saw with disc brakes. They want Joe Public to buy it, so they want it showcased on the pro's bieks.
My point about Quintana and Valverde is if they feel that strongly about it try racing without them. I fail to see a flaw in that logic, if it is logic at all, just a suggestion for them to put their money where their mouth is.
As for other sports I imagine there is all sorts of data available from their performances to learn from. Whether they can access that during the activity and use it to influence their tactics is another matter. I would just say banning power meters would be the tip of the iceberg. Just look at the silly rules that surrounded the bike you had to use for the hour record that effectively ended it as a popular challenge for pros for decades.
End of the day it isn't going to happen anyway.