Think about it. You could take a 100 or 200m guy and stick them in just about any sport, the farther you get from that the worse the athletes are. You go from a great athlete in the 100m to the absolute dregs, the bottom of the barrel that "run" ultras.
Nah in a lot of cases I'd rather have a 400 guy on my pickup basketball team than a 100 guy.
And the more women they get! The chicks all dig the short fast guys, not the ones with endurance and stamina!
The good ultra guys are pretty good athletes, IMHO.