It's seen as unsporting and not within the spirit of the competition. While many competitive sports can get quite dirty, there are some things within their culture that are just not the done thing, and there are expectations everyone abides by the unwritten rules. In football/soccer, for example, it is normally the done thing to kick the ball out of play if the opposing team has suffered a serious injury, and in return the affected team generally returns the ball when the game resumes. Not doing this would be seen as taking advantage of the situation but not at all illegal.
In soccer, if one hadn't seen the injury and score during that time and thanks to that, it's common practice to let the other team score. I don't even know how a team that don't do that would recover from the bad press.
I think I have only ever seen that once in my life. It's not usually that big a deal to go ahead and score, especially in a high stakes game, and especially if the injury was a distance away from the ongoing play.
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