Some kids as young as six train twice a day, six and a half days a week, until they emerge as world beaters.
We have on the economy, we have on climate change where we are world beaters in terms of the legislation we're bringing forward.
Perhaps that is why Lemerre is so keen to stress youth development - he simply doesn't have world beaters at his disposal right now.
Such reforms would make the British economy "a winner in the global competitive race", he said, citing sectors such as aerospace, pharmaceuticals, financial services and the creative industries as "world beaters".
He ended with a challenge to the TED audience of technologists and high net-worth world beaters, can you match what Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and others achieved in the 19th and 20th century.
In industry as in services, India has produced world-beaters: in pharmaceuticals, steel (where Tata Steel is the world's lowest-cost producer), in cement and in automotive parts.
In some subjects, UK universities are world-beaters, ahead even of the most prestigious US universities.
Germany's Mittelstand, the closest Western equivalent of the chuken kigyo, also boasts many smallish world-beaters.
American investors are keen on high-tech start-ups because they have seen many grow into world-beaters.
There won't be any more world-beaters that come out of nowhere, like Microsoft.
They can be world-beaters: the Daily Mail runs America's fifth most-popular newspaper website.
The fact remains that BDCs have seldom been world-beaters in total return.
The one thing we can't do at this club is get carried away and think we're world-beaters or it will come back to bite us.
Los Angeles is a huge Petri dish of entrepreneurship, yet few of its startups, not counting those in entertainment, ever go public or grow into world-beaters.
And, with the team sitting second in the Bundesliga looking far from world-beaters, Rangers must fancy their chances of reaching the last eight stage of the tournament.
The question is whether this endearing duo are merely the remnants of America's industrial past or the sort of equipment that will make the USA world-beaters once again.
Twenty years from now, perhaps Tech City will be home to a similar collection of world-beaters, but first it may need to attract more scientists and fewer web designers.
John O'Leary, part of the board that compiled the latest ranking and editor of the Times Good University Guide, says a greater emphasis on research has helped make world-beaters of a handful of UK universities.
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