Basketball is a general purpose sport. The Claude of it can win. Some other sports such as gymnastics would need something more like the AlphaZero of it to win.

Both of these sports select for different type of body types - what do you mean? Gymnasts are shorter than the average population.

> Basketball is a general purpose sport. The Claude of it can win.

There aren't too many pro-ballers shorter than 5'10" (177cm), and definitely no dominant ones.

If we're defining "general purpose sport" as a sport in which people of all shapes and sizes are able to achieve greatness, then I would say soccer or golf fit that definition better.

Men's soccer in the 2010s was dominated by 2 of the best players in history: Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. There's a 7 inch height difference between the two. Ronaldo is powerful and muscled, Messi is lithe and graceful. Both played in approximately the same position on the field, in the same era. Both were brilliant.