Changes in stage 9 compared to stage 8 Biggest gainers by position : +3 Yohann Gène +3 Mathieu Heijboer +3 Lloyd Mondory +3 Laurent Mangel +3 Dario Andriotto +3 Danilo Napolitano +3 Arnaud Labbe +2 Thor Hushovd +2 Rubens Bertogliati +2 Raivis Belohvosciks Biggest losers by position : -19 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio -12 Ivan Rovny -9 Christophe Kern -9 Mathieu Perget -9 Sergio Ghisalberti -8 Andrei Kunitski -8 Frantisek Rabon -8 Michael Rasmussen -5 Martin Müller -4 Arnaud Gérard -4 Carl Naibo Biggest gainers by time : +0:20 Danilo Napolitano +0:12 Robbie McEwen +0:08 Alessandro Petacchi +0:06 Nicolas Crosbie +0:04 Frédéric Bessy Biggest losers by time : -4:26 Sergio Ghisalberti -4:14 Martin Müller -3:29 Aaron Olson -3:29 Arnaud Gérard -3:29 Christophe Kern -3:29 Fabien Patanchon -3:29 Frantisek Rabon -3:29 Ivan Rovny -3:29 Mathieu Perget -3:29 Michael Rasmussen -3:29 Mikhail Ignatiev Favourites by position : +1 Fabian Cancellara Favourites by time : Top 3 and favourites standings : 1 Marco Pinotti 39.45.42 2 Andrea Noe' 0.28 3 Serguei Yakovlev 0.54 ..... 9 Dario David Cioni 2.13 ..... 17 Danilo Di Luca 4.12 18 Franco Pellizotti 4.38 ..... 22 Damiano Cunego 5.06 ..... 25 Paolo Savoldelli 5.19 ..... 32 Stefano Garzelli 5.37 33 Riccardo Ricco 5.45 34 Yaroslav Popovych 5.55 35 Paolo Bettini 6.08 36 Gilberto Simoni 6.12 37 Leonardo Piepoli 6.12 ..... 40 Iban Mayo Diez 6.31 ..... 65 Pietro Caucchioli 8.17 ..... 69 Davide Rebellin 8.44 ..... 133 Fabian Cancellara 29.40 Retirements to date : AG2r Prévoyance Julien Loubet Bouygues Telecom Thomas Voeckler Caisse d'Epargne Joan Horrach Rippoll Crédit Agricole Patrice Halgand Euskaltel - Euskadi Benat Albizuri Aransolo Française des Jeux Cyrille Monnerais " Ian McLeod " Timothy Gudsell Gerolsteiner Volker Ordowski Quickstep - Innergetic Andrea Tonti Rabobank Graeme Brown " Leon Van Bon T-Mobile Team Adam Hansen " Michael Barry " Thomas Ziegler Team CSC Michael Blaudzun Total retirements : 16