So is ESL saying that Bradley Wiggins is the Geoffrey Boycott of cycling?
Or, if we go back 10 years, Jonny Wilkinson.
Both BW and JW excel in the individual, non-head-to-head aspects of the sport: place kicking and TTs.
Both had African import sidekicks to take the pressure (Catt, Froome).
Both in teams headed up by baldies (Brailsford, Woodward) and relying on relentless crushing of any more enterprising opponents.
And there's the joker, both teams had a gobby, talented, individual who didn't seem to fit in with the remorsesless crushing method (Cav, Austin Healey).
I rest my case.