Yes and no.

I've never played football; to think I could outplay, say, Sir David Beckham in his prime or whomever, is just complete and utter nonsense — in my current state.

Now, if I'd been playing football since I was a wee lad and I had built up that skill over the course of my life as I assume he has, maybe there is a chance I could have competed on his level. But we'll never know because I spent my life playing video games and reading books. I'm fine with the fact that I probably have more hours in Cyberpunk 2077 than he does. (That does not matter to me in the slightest. I'm just saying there are things I can do better than a professional/world renowned football player. And not that I am the best in the world at those things, either.)

Furthermore, I think the people who will excel at those things are the people who are actually doing them, because they had an interest and it drives them. The exception would be people who injured out in school and never had a chance to go pro. So if you change their past and remove that one incident, they could have gone pro and may have gone on to set records. But those of us who never had an interest in playing? No, I do not think we would ever measure up to one who has lived and breathed the sport their whole life.