Stage 8 : June 14, 2015 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains - Modane Valfrejus 156.5 km 1 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 3.59.27 2 Simon Yates (GBr) Orica GreenEdge 0.18 3 Rui Costa (Por) Lampre-Merida 4 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 5 Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha 0.28 6 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 7 Daniel Martin (Irl) Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team 0.31 8 Wouter Poels (Ned) Team Sky 0.44 9 Pierre Rolland (Fra) Team Europcar 10 Benat Intxausti (Spa) Movistar Team Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 : Biggest gainers by position : +24 Benoit Vaugrenard +23 Chad Haga +20 Jacques Janse Van Rensburg +18 Thomas Voeckler +17 Martijn Keizer +17 Manuel Quinziato +15 Wouter Poels +15 Tosh Van Der Sande +15 Serge Pauwels +15 Julien Simon Biggest losers by position : -21 Louis Meintjes -18 George Bennett -16 Andriy Grivko -16 Ian Stannard -13 Kenny Elissonde -13 Rein Taaramae -12 Alberto Losada Alguacil -11 Ian Boswell -11 Nicolas Edet -10 Bram Tankink -10 Nacer Bouhanni Biggest gainers by time : +0:18 Christopher Froome Biggest losers by time : -23:12 Albert Timmer -23:12 Alberto Losada Alguacil -23:12 Aleksei Tsatevich -23:12 Angel Vicioso -23:12 Bram Tankink -23:12 Christophe Laporte -23:12 Damien Howson -23:12 Daniel Oss -23:12 Dennis Van Winden -23:12 Dmitriy Gruzdev -23:12 Dylan Van Baarle Favourites by position : +15 Bauke Mollema +8 Pierre Rolland +7 Nicolas Roche +4 Samuel Sanchez +2 Joaquim Rodriguez +1 Wilco Kelderman +1 Romain Bardet +1 Daniel Martin +1 Christopher Froome -1 Vincenzo Nibali -1 Tejay Van Garderen -1 Andrew Talansky -2 Jean-Christophe Peraud -3 Alejandro Valverde Favourites by time : +0:18 Christopher Froome -0:10 Tejay Van Garderen -0:20 Romain Bardet -0:20 Joaquim Rodriguez -0:23 Daniel Martin -0:36 Pierre Rolland -1:27 Vincenzo Nibali -1:27 Bauke Mollema -1:32 Alejandro Valverde -1:38 Andrew Talansky -3:36 Wilco Kelderman -5:48 Nicolas Roche -6:30 Jean-Christophe Peraud -7:01 Samuel Sanchez Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Christopher Froome 30:59:02 (was 2nd at 0:18) 2 Tejay Van Garderen 0:10 (was 1st at 0:00) 3 Rui Costa 1:16 (was 4th at 1:10) 4 Benat Intxausti 1:21 (was 3rd at 0:45) 5 Simon Yates 1:33 (was 5th at 1:29) 6 Romain Bardet 2:05 (was 7th at 1:45) 7 Daniel Martin 2:52 (was 8th at 2:29) 8 Joaquim Rodriguez 3:06 (was 10th at 2:46) 9 Alejandro Valverde 3:12 (was 6th at 1:40) 10 Andrew Talansky 4:17 (was 9th at 2:39) ..... 12 Vincenzo Nibali 4:32 (was 11th at 3:05) ..... 22 Wilco Kelderman 28:40 (was 23rd at 25:04) ..... 25 Pierre Rolland 38:23 (was 33rd at 37:47) ..... 31 Jean-Christophe Peraud 41:21 (was 29th at 34:51) ..... 37 Nicolas Roche 50:09 (was 44th at 44:21) ..... 49 Samuel Sanchez 56:03 (was 53rd at 49:02) ..... 60 Bauke Mollema 1:04:52 (was 75th at 1:03:25) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Nacer Bouhanni 64 (unchanged) 2 Edvald Boasson Hagen 56 (unchanged) 3 Christopher Froome 42 (was 5th with 27 points) 4 Tejay Van Garderen 32 (was 7th with 24 points) 5 Aleksei Tsatevich 32 (was 3rd with 32 points) 6 Tiesj Benoot 31 (was 4th with 31 points) 7 Rui Costa 27 (was 10th with 17 points) 8 Romain Bardet 25 (was 8th with 20 points) 9 Peter Kennaugh 25 (was 6th with 25 points) 10 Simon Yates 24 (was 14th with 12 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Daniel Teklehaimanot 65 (unchanged) 2 Christopher Froome 26 (was 5th with 16 points) 3 Louis Meintjes 25 (was 2nd with 25 points) 4 Romain Bardet 17 (was 4th with 16 points) 5 Vincenzo Nibali 17 (was 3rd with 17 points) 6 Perrig Quemeneur 16 (was 10th with 11 points) 7 Tejay Van Garderen 15 (was 9th with 11 points) 8 Rui Costa 14 (was 14th with 8 points) 9 Arnaud Courteille 14 (was 6th with 14 points) 10 Daniel Navarro 14 (was 7th with 14 points) Retirements to date : Stage Bjorn Thurau (Ger) Bora-Argon 18 8 <<< Jose Herrada (Spa) Movistar Team 8 <<< Kevin Reza (Fra) FDJ.fr 8 <<< Luke Rowe (GBr) Team Sky 8 <<< Niki Terpstra (Ned) Etixx - Quick-Step 8 <<< Pieter Serry (Bel) Etixx - Quick-Step 8 <<< Tony Martin (Ger) Etixx - Quick-Step 8 <<< Dominik Nerz (Ger) Bora-Argon 18 7 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Lampre-Merida 7 Mathias Frank (Swi) IAM Cycling 7 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Etixx - Quick-Step 7 Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Soudal 7 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Movistar Team 6 Arnold Jeannesson (Fra) FDJ.fr 6 Caleb Fairly (USA) Team Giant-Alpecin 6 Calvin Watson (Aus) Trek Factory Racing 6 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 6 Jesper Hansen (Den) Tinkoff-Saxo 6 Jonas Vangenechten (Bel) IAM Cycling 6 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Etixx - Quick-Step 6 Luka Mezgec (Slo) Team Giant-Alpecin 6 Martin Velits (Svk) Etixx - Quick-Step 6 Maxime Bouet (Fra) Etixx - Quick-Step 6 Murilo Antonio Fischer (Bra) FDJ.fr 6 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 6 Vicente Reynes (Spa) IAM Cycling 6 Yannick Martinez (Fra) Team Europcar 6 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Trek Factory Racing 6 Brian Bulgac (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 5 Kris Boeckmans (Bel) Lotto Soudal 4 Simon Geschke (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin 4 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Lampre-Merida 3 Laurent Pichon (Fra) FDJ.fr 2 Gert Dockx (Bel) Lotto Soudal 1 Total retirements : 34