Apologies for lateness of stage 3 & 4 results but someone is making a real pig's ear of the results. Changes in stage 4 compared to stage 3 Biggest gainers by position : +3 Tanel Kangert +3 Robert Forster +3 Maarten Den Bakker +2 William Walker +2 William Bonnet +2 Sebastien Chavanel +2 Sebastian Siedler +2 Robert Wagner +2 Rene Haselbacher +2 Peter Velits Biggest losers by position : -20 Mathieu Perget -16 Pascal Hungerbuhler -12 Andre Korff -9 Johan Van Summeren -6 Jason McCartney -6 Marcel Sieberg -4 Martin Muller -3 Angel Gomez -2 Marcus Burghardt -2 Tom Stubbe -1 Jurgen Van Den Broeck Biggest gainers by time : Biggest losers by time : -6:44 Andre Korff -6:03 Mathieu Perget -4:51 Markus Eichler -4:51 Tom Stubbe -3:26 Pascal Hungerbuhler -2:58 Jason McCartney -2:58 Johan Van Summeren -1:25 Marcel Sieberg -1:15 Martin Muller -0:52 Marco Bandiera -0:50 Jurgen Van Den Broeck Favourites by position : +2 Rene Haselbacher +1 Rigoberto Uran -1 Jurgen Van Den Broeck -9 Johan Van Summeren Favourites by time : -0:27 Bernhard Kohl -0:50 Jurgen Van Den Broeck -2:58 Johan Van Summeren Top 3 and favourites standings : 1 Linus Gerdemann 17.55.48 2 Thomas Lovkvist 0.17 3 Janez Brajkovic 0.20 ..... 13 Markus Fothen 2.42 14 Leonardo Bertagnolli 2.51 ..... 19 Vladimir Karpets 3.28 ..... 28 Maxime Monfort 6.04 ..... 53 Rigoberto Uran 12.07 ..... 71 Jurgen Van Den Broeck 16.52 ..... 91 Johan Van Summeren 22.42 92 Jens Voigt 23.00 ..... 95 Remi Pauriol 23.21 ..... 101 Bernhard Kohl 27.20 ..... 115 Matteo Carrara 29.08 ..... 138 Rene Haselbacher 35.27 Retirements to date : Stage Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram 1 Sergey Yakovlev (Kaz) Astana 1 Albert Timmer (Ned) Skil-Shimano 3 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 1 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Silence - Lotto 1 Total retirements : 5