Indeed, anyone who can win a grand tour is the stuff of champions. Sheer determination got him over the line this year, especiallly with the mechanical in the alps and then to the chase GC contenders back. He didn't crack in the high mountians and kept a cool mindset and stuck to his high constant tempo. He knew he had the race in the bag on the last stage individual time trial, lets face it the man can cycle. Im lead to believe if the BMC team manager had not failed to give Cadel the last time check on the individual time trial, he may have put that extra something to nab the stage win from Tony Martin.