Originally Posted by
surak
You can't say that talent isn't genetics but isn't part of skills either. That makes no sense, it's inherent and not developable, which under your separation means it's not skills.
And again, plenty of evidence that Woods and Roglic are outliers otherwise there'd be plenty of other crossovers with similar aerobic engines, which are not that rare. Them making it could just be inherent cycling talent being given a chance to shine through a series of favorable life events.
By genetics in that context I meant physical attributes. Woods and Roglic had the inherent cycling “talent” of massive aerobic engines and the propensity to suffer. I don’t see that either of them have any special bike handling talents, like we see with the likes of Pidcock, MVDP and WVA.
I suspect there are quite a few elite endurance runners who could crossover into road cycling, but there probably isn’t much incentive for them to do so.