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Race results already acknowledge that age and gender matter. Age groups exist for a reason. Nobody compares a Boston time to a Berlin time without context.
But the same results publish an Overall ranking — a single list, sorted by clock time, presented as a measure of performance. A 25-year-old man finishing ahead of a 50-year-old woman becomes a “better performance” by virtue of appearing higher on the list. The physiology of who showed up — none of it counted, even though everyone watching the race knows it counted.
No one would publish a single Overall ranking that intermingled results from a flat marathon and a hilly one and called it a fair measure of effort. The structural unfairness would be obvious. The same unfairness exists when results intermingle athletes of different ages and genders — it’s just less visible. The Overall ranking, as currently published, isn’t a fair measure of performance. It’s a sorted list that pretends to be.