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The term 'elites' gets a bad rap in modern culture, mostly because political pundits use it to mean 'me and people I like' - elitism - rather than understanding what elite means. Yet in sports we still recognize that there are elites. Don't like Usain Bolt's politics? Beat him in a race. Some new research says that, as much as it might bother us, some elites are elite in many ways.