I'd have no problem with this analysis, except I really can't understand how he is so above the rest. If you take the past as an example, the differences between the top tier riders never reached such disproportions. And he is doing it in practically every kind of race imaginable. Even Merckx could meet his match in the mountains against Ocana, who was simply a superior climber, or Hinault who could be beaten even when in fine form. Not Pogacar, who has reached a superiority that goes against everything we know about modern cycling. For the past three decades specialization took over, with it thought impossible to win classics, GTs and Worlds by one rider, let alone in the same season. He breaks Pantani's record by 3'40", then goes on a 100 km break to win solo at Worlds. Nothing makes sense anymore. Contador was doing "Pantani-like" things with a TT ability that verged on a real specialist until Clengate, but he was nowhere in the classics or Worlds. Froome was a dominant force in the GTs and spring stage reaces, but similarly was a non-entity in the one-day races. You have to go back to the 80s to have all-rounders, when the doping was much less effective and sophisticated, when you had a select group of riders (Hinault, Fignon, Lemond, Roche, Delgado, Kelly), some of which were less versitile, who had a tight competition amongst themselves. Because, although the talent was great, no margin of difference was as large as what we saw from Tadej this year against his rivals. In an era in which the science of performance science has reach extremely high levels, you wouldn't expect one rider to be so dominant, unless he is ahead in the arms race (chemical or mechanical), because I don't believe there should be such a difference in talent between the top five-six riders as we are presently witnessing. In my opinion, after the spring, then Giro-Tour-Worlds he should be tired, but that is clearly not the case and it's not normal. He'd have to be truely that much more talented to the other big talents of this era, than has ever been reached between the best riders in the past.