In early 20th century Recife, football was regarded as an elite sport.

"Tennis was regarded as an elite sport, and we've taken it up," he said.

Bo draws unique parallels between the world of elite sport and high performance business.

Golf is too often thought of as an elite sport played at country clubs, and to some extent it is.

The image of lacrosse as an elite sport played mostly at white prep schools is not altogether accurate.

They will be judged by the scoreboard, the only arbiter that matters in elite sport.

"The whole reality of elite sport is that it's vulnerable to doping," Hoberman says.

Only the naïve or willfully ignorant did not seem to understand that drug use has been widespread for many years in elite sport.

No result in any elite sport can be trusted with reasonable certainty to have been achieved without performance-enhancing drugs, a number of American scientists say.

Coursing with purebred Greyhounds is still considered an "elite" sport.