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Geraint is the new Froome who was the new Wiggins.
I find G's performance a lot better than I was expecting, go thought he'd boss the first week and then Porte and the other climbing doms to take over once it got lumpy. I said earlier in this thread Geraint has been world class at everything he has done, from an early age. There have been plenty of riders who were able to succeed at both classics and GTs in the past, which disappeared in the Armstrong/EPO era, perhaps I'm being optimistic but the fact he's doing that means the peloton isn't that juiced anymore.
Plus there's no rule that riders can't be good multiple facets of cycling, it's so Luddite. It's seems now people are just setting anecdotal limits on what riders should be, in their opinion, capable of, that they should only be good at one thing, and that one thing cannot change throughout their career.