Interestingly enough in Canada/USA is very OK and cool to say 'gifted athlete' or 'talented goalkeeper' but totally no-no to say 'mathematically gifted student'. Speaking from the personal experience of kids being in high school.
> All students deserve powerful mathematics; we reject ideas of natural gifts and talents... The push to calculus in grade twelve is itself misguided... An important goal of this framework is to replace ideas of innate mathematics 'talent' and 'giftedness' with the recognition that every student is on a growth pathway... There is no cutoff determining when one child is 'gifted' and another is not.