There are no fair competitions. That bar is impossible to achieve. You can only create rules to make certain aspects fair. It will always be true that some athletes and teams are coming in with obvious advantages, no matter what anyone tries. And that’s kind of the point, right? It’s the best in the world, and the best are not distributed evenly for a variety of economic and cultural and demographic reasons.
There are no fair competitions. That bar is impossible to achieve. You can only create rules to make certain aspects fair. It will always be true that some athletes and teams are coming in with obvious advantages, no matter what anyone tries. And that’s kind of the point, right? It’s the best in the world, and the best are not distributed evenly for a variety of economic and cultural and demographic reasons.