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Better spending your life on a couch, drinking beer and eating pizza
Now you're getting it.
But there are other achievements you know. A gold medal isn't the only thing worth aiming for. Goal setting is one of the big factors for any athlete. Set unrealistic goals, get sad, quit. Set achievable goals, maybe get them, set more goals, continue life of progress.
Knowing how to set process goals vs. outcome goals is why I'm still racing bikes after 30 years of being shit at it.
hippy
I would ask you to quantitatively define how good you were on the first day vs the others with a life of training, but that's not the point I'm trying to make.
Maybe what you are saying is more true for a a 3weeks stage race where is the length of the event itself which favours the genetically gifted (is it though? albeit in a different situation, look at Anna Kiesenhofer), but in other sports there are plenty of examples of people that "made it" without being born with extraordinary talent.
The other side of the coin is that if you start telling people from day 1 that they will never achieve their dreams because of something they have no control over, then what's the point in even trying? Better spending your life on a couch, drinking beer and eating pizza