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@Oliver Schick
He clearly has secret springs built into his tyres that enable him to do this.
The thing with Cancellara is that he rides a time trial and gives a victory salute. I don't know if he was last man off in this one and was told by his DS that he had won, but if not that's quite something.
I sometimes think that if Ullrich hadn't doped early in his career and won the Tour, he could have had a career much like Cancellara's (assuming Cancellara is clean, of course, I have no idea either way). Perhaps he would have had more focus on his best discipline, time trialling, and would have been happier without that constant weight of expectation on his shoulders to win Grand Tours, forcing him to train for things he wasn't quite as good at. Cancellara can just take it easy in the mountains and wait for the TTs. Ullrich could perhaps have done that and still been a very successful rider, although obviously not as famous, of course. They seem like similar riders in many ways, although Cancellara is either advised better or has more of an athlete's head on his shoulders, or both.