An encyclopaedia also can't win a gold medals at the IMO and IOI. So yeah, they're not the same thing, even though the analogy is pretty good.

Of course they’re not the same thing, the goal of an analogy is not to be perfect but to provide a point of comparison to explain an idea.

My point is that I find the chosen term inadequate. The author made it up from combining two existing words, where one of them is a poor fit for what they’re aiming to convey.