The word `elite` is widely used to describe the standard of athlete in a research or support setting. One might be asked for evidence of working with elite athletes when applying for a job in scientific support. Or the method section of a research article might state the participants were elite athletes. But do we all mean the same thing? Maybe you won`t get the job because your understanding of elite didn`t match the (non-)employer`s. Perhaps a failure to replicate research on athletes was due to different levels of `eliteness` of the participants. So a consistent definition of elite would be helpful, but it`s a real can of worms.
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