People. Just people.
Oh and Britain winning loads of gold medals at the Olympics, but doing it in elite sports that require a large amount of technology so the third world can't compete (sailing, cycling, rowing, horse riding etc etc)
Graeme Obree made his bicycle out of washing machine parts, so perhaps not so historically an 'elite' sport!.
Also Golds in Rowing (which you never hear the end of in NZ Olympic effort), Swimming and Athletics.
Anyway - most Scots can't run as fast as Kenyans, so now point trying to compete against them in a foot race is there!