And Now You Know Your ABC

A programmer creates Python classes to manage track and field competition results but discovers that simple inheritance isn't enough for complex event requirements. While building Event, TrackEvent, and FieldEvent classes, they realize that sorting results differs between track events (fastest time wins) and field events (longest distance wins), leading them to implement Abstract Base Classes (ABCs). However, additional complications like wind readings affecting different event subsets and varying tie-breaking rules reveal that inheritance hierarchies become unwieldy for overlapping categorizations.