Changes in stage 2 compared to stage 1
Biggest gainers by position :
+50 Peter Wrolich
+50 Leonardo Piepoli
+49 Ángel Gómez Gómez
+46 Björn Leukemans
+43 José Antonio Redondo
+40 Blaise Sonnery
+38 Sylvain Calzati
+38 Mads Kaggestad
+38 Guido TrentiN
+37 Kevin Seeldraeyers
Biggest losers by position :
-110 Nick Nuyens
-110 Tom Boonen
-105 Volodymyr Dyudya
-94 Gert Steegmans
-93 Dmitry Grabovskiy
-89 Tomas Vaitkus
-87 Josep Jufré
-82 Magnus Backstedt
-80 Sebastian Siedler
-71 Enrico Franzoi
-64 Servais Knaven
Biggest gainers by time :
+0:09 José Antonio Redondo
+0:09 Christophe Moreau
Biggest losers by time :
-23:59 Kevin Hulsmans
-17:27 Remmert Wielinga
-15:56 Magnus Backstedt
-14:33 Carlo Scognamiglio
-14:33 Christophe Brandt
-14:33 Dmitry Grabovskiy
-14:33 Enrico Franzoi
-14:33 Fabio Sacchi
-14:33 Gert Steegmans
-14:33 Graeme Brown
-14:33 Jaime Castañeda
Favourites by position :
+50 Leonardo Piepoli
+36 Manuel Beltrán
+22 Christophe Moreau
+19 Tadej Valjavec
+14 Iñigo Cuesta
+6 Serguei Ivanov
+6 Haimar Zubeldia
+4 Cadel Evans
+4 Bobby Julich
+3 Oscar Pereiro
+1 Mikel Astarloza
+1 Denis Menchov
+1 Alexander Vinokourov
+1 Alberto Contador
-2 Levi Leipheimer
-2 George Hincapie
-2 David Zabriskie
-2 Andrey Kashechkin
-2 Alejandro Valverde
Favourites by time :
+0:09 Christophe Moreau
-0:24 Tadej Valjavec
-0:24 Serguei Ivanov
-0:24 Oscar Pereiro
-0:24 Mikel Astarloza
-0:24 Manuel Beltrán
-0:24 Levi Leipheimer
-0:24 Leonardo Piepoli
-0:24 Iñigo Cuesta
-0:24 Haimar Zubeldia
-0:24 George Hincapie
-0:24 Denis Menchov
-0:24 David Zabriskie
-0:24 David Millar
-0:24 Cadel Evans
-0:24 Bobby Julich
-0:24 Andrey Kashechkin
-0:24 Alexander Vinokourov
-0:24 Alejandro Valverde
-0:24 Alberto Contador
Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Christophe Moreau 9:30:42
2 José Antonio Redondo 0.07
3 Bradley Wiggins 0.24
4 Levi Leipheimer 0.25
5 Andrey Kashechkin 0.26
6 George Hincapie 0.26
7 Alejandro Valverde 0.27
8 David Zabriskie 0.27
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11 David Millar 0.30
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17 Alberto Contador 0.32
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19 Mikel Astarloza 0.33
20 Alexander Vinokourov 0.33
21 Denis Menchov 0.33
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24 Oscar Pereiro 0.34
25 Cadel Evans 0.35
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27 Bobby Julich 0.35
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34 Haimar Zubeldia 0.39
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37 Serguei Ivanov 0.40
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53 Iñigo Cuesta 0.42
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63 Tadej Valjavec 0.45
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86 Manuel Beltrán 0.53
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92 Leonardo Piepoli 1.08
Retirements to date :
Discovery Channel Tom Danielson
Lampre-Fondital Massimiliano Mori
Liquigas Roberto Petito
Milram Igor Astarloa
Rabobank Marc De Maar
" Theo Eltink
T-Mobile André Korff
Total retirements : 7