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1. Scholarships 2. The top 10 were once top 10 000

The whereabouts of system is used in all serious sports, ie those that follow wada rules.

The 500,001st cares quite a lot!

That's unlikely; there is no ranking that includes so many people, and those two particular people will never have heard of each other.

not necessarily saying it's a good system, but I remember working with someone who had previously tried making it pro in a sport who was really frustrated with a lot of doping at the low levels. In order to advance upwards, it was necessary to do well in the lower levels, but due to the lax testing he was competing against other athletes with an unfair advantage.