1) The reason the Olympics works is that you can rank people accurately down to within miliseconds Aside from things like diving, ice dancing and synchronized

1) The reason the Olympics works is that you can rank people accurately down to within miliseconds Aside from things like diving, ice dancing and synchronized swimming, though supporting your statement those activities are absolutely loaded with controversy because the subjective nature -- as opposed to the objective reality of a stopwatch -- leads to endless differences of opinion. Ranking makes sense if you have objective measures. In this industry there are staggeringly few, especially for large internal teams working on parts of a whole. Everyone has agendas and imperfect knowledge, everyone has bias and self-serving judgments.