Stage 1 : Jun 7, Evian-les-Bains - Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, 191 km
1 Grega Bole (Slo) Lampre-Farnese Vini 4.47.24
2 Peter Velits (Svk) Team HTC - Columbia
3 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Sky Professional Cycling Team
4 Steve Chainel (Fra) Bbox Bouygues Telecom
5 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
6 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram
7 Stefan Denifl (Aut) Cervelo Test Team
8 Maxime Bouet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
9 Arkaitz Duran Daroca (Spa) Footon-Servetto
10 Julien El Fares (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit en Ligne
Changes in GC, stage 1 compared to stage 0 :
Biggest gainers by position :
+102 Jesus Hernandez Blazquez
+92 Yannick Talabardon
+92 Julien El Fares
+92 David De La Fuente Rasilla
+87 Christophe Kern
+86 Maxime Bouet
+84 Anders Lund
+64 Jose Alberto Benitez Roman
+61 John-Lee Augustyn
+61 Ivan Santaromita
Biggest losers by position :
-146 Ben Hermans
-141 Mauro Finetto
-138 Haimar Zubeldia Aguirre
-132 Paul Martens
-118 Lars Ytting Bak
-113 Vincent Jerome
-110 Markel Irizar Aranburu
-108 Dennis Van Winden
-92 Edvald Boasson Hagen
-87 Laurent Mangel
-85 Maarten Tjallingii
Biggest gainers by time :
Biggest losers by time :
-17:41 Mauro Finetto
-11:56 Andre Steensen
-11:56 Dennis Van Winden
-11:56 Joaquin Novoa Menedez
-11:56 Lars Ytting Bak
-11:56 Mario Aerts
-11:56 Markel Irizar Aranburu
-11:56 Nikolai Trusov
-11:56 Vincent Jerome
-10:02 Ben Hermans
-7:03 Geoffroy Lequatre
Favourites by position :
+32 Daniel Navarro Garcia
+27 Cyril Dessel
+8 Jurgen Van Den Broeck
+6 Ruben Plaza Molina
+3 David Millar
-29 Denis Menchov
-31 Johan Van Summeren
-59 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
-118 Lars Ytting Bak
Favourites by time :
-1:11 Johan Van Summeren
-1:11 Denis Menchov
-1:11 Cyril Dessel
-7:03 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
-11:56 Lars Ytting Bak
Top 3 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Alberto Contador Velasco 4:55:58 (unchanged)
2 Tejay Van Garderen 0:02 (unchanged)
3 Janez Brajkovic 0:05 (unchanged)
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6 Remi Pauriol 0:12 (unchanged)
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10 David Millar 0:15 (was 13th at 0:15)
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13 Ruben Plaza Molina 0:17 (was 19th at 0:17)
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21 Jurgen Van Den Broeck 0:21 (was 29th at 0:21)
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38 Daniel Navarro Garcia 0:33 (was 70th at 0:33)
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62 Johan Van Summeren 1:33 (was 31st at 0:22)
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64 Denis Menchov 1:35 (was 35th at 0:24)
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81 Cyril Dessel 1:50 (was 108th at 0:39)
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163 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo 7:42 (was 104th at 0:39)
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167 Lars Ytting Bak 12:25 (was 49th at 0:29)
Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Geraint Thomas 38 (was 4th with 18 points)
2 Grega Bole 32 (was 14th with 7 points)
3 Christophe Riblon 26 (was 11th with 10 points)
4 Alberto Contador Velasco 25 (was 1st with 25 points)
5 Dario Cataldo 25 (was 5th with 16 points)
6 Tejay Van Garderen 22 (was 2nd with 22 points)
7 Peter Velits 22 (was 0 points)
8 Janez Brajkovic 20 (was 3rd with 20 points)
9 Christian Knees 19 (was 17th with 4 points)
10 Steve Chainel 18 (was 0 points)
Retirements to date : Stage
Total retirements : 0