When you create an event you can choose a 'Limit Distance' or 'Limit Laps' for loop courses. The interface allows you to provide both inputs with 'Limit Distance' overriding 'Limit Laps'. It would be preferred to make this an either/or type of option to ensure the event organizer intent is captured.

This came up in an actual incident where a previous event was copied to a new one, the 'Limit Laps' input was updated but that was ignored and unnoticed with the previous 'Limit Distance' overriding in the event.