Changes in stage 11 compared to stage 10 Biggest gainers by position : +11 Grischa Niermann +11 Gert Steegmans +11 Félix Rafael Cardenas Ravalo +10 Julian Dean +10 José Vicente Garcia Acosta +9 William Bonnet +9 Ralf Grabsch +9 Peter Wrolich +9 Paolo Longo Borghini +9 Manuel Quinziato Biggest losers by position : -24 Daniel Navarro Garcia -14 Benoît Vaugrenard -11 Aleksandr Kuchynski -11 Charles Wegelius -10 Matthieu Sprick -9 John Gadret -9 Nicolas Vogondy -9 Pieter Weening -8 Christophe Moreau -8 David De La Fuente Rasilla -8 Mathieu Ladagnous Biggest gainers by time : +0:20 Robert Hunter +0:12 Fabian Cancellara +0:08 Murilo Fischer +0:06 Xavier Florencio Cabre +0:04 Fabian Wegmann +0:02 Pierrick Fedrigo +0:02 Philippe Gilbert Biggest losers by time : -12:26 Benoît Vaugrenard -10:13 Aleksandr Kuchynski -10:13 Charles Wegelius -10:13 Daniel Navarro Garcia -10:13 David De La Fuente Rasilla -10:13 Geraint Thomas -10:13 John Gadret -10:13 Jérôme Pineau -10:13 Laurent Lefevre -10:13 Matthieu Sprick -10:13 Nicolas Vogondy Favourites by position : +8 Paolo Savoldelli +5 Dario David Cioni +4 Fabian Cancellara +3 Filippo Pozzato +2 Yaroslav Popovych +2 Vladimir Karpets +2 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro +2 George Hincapie +2 Alexandre Vinokourov +1 Oscar Pereiro Sio +1 Levi Leipheimer +1 Kim Kirchen +1 Frank Schleck +1 Carlos Sastre Candil +1 Andrey Kashechkin +1 Andreas Klöden -1 Sylvain Chavanel -1 Michael Boogerd -1 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin -5 Tadej Valjavec -8 Christophe Moreau Favourites by time : +0:12 Fabian Cancellara -3:20 Tadej Valjavec -3:20 Sylvain Chavanel -3:20 Manuel Beltran Martinez -3:20 Christophe Moreau -3:29 Marzio Bruseghin -3:29 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin -3:29 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro -3:58 Michael Boogerd Top 3 and favourites standings : 1 Michael Rasmussen 53.11.38 2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 2.35 3 Iban Mayo Diez 2.39 4 Cadel Evans 2.41 5 Alberto Contador Velasco 3.08 6 Carlos Sastre Candil 3.39 7 Andreas Klöden 3.50 8 Levi Leipheimer 3.53 9 Kim Kirchen 5.06 ..... 11 Andrey Kashechkin 5.34 12 Frank Schleck 5.56 13 Oscar Pereiro Sio 6.36 14 Christophe Moreau 6.38 15 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre 6.42 ..... 18 Denis Menchov 7.10 19 Alexandre Vinokourov 8.05 20 Yaroslav Popovych 8.16 21 Vladimir Karpets 8.51 ..... 25 Tadej Valjavec 11.05 ..... 27 Manuel Beltran Martinez 13.29 ..... 33 Michael Boogerd 20.07 34 Sylvain Chavanel 20.12 ..... 37 George Hincapie 26.21 ..... 46 Dario David Cioni 33.09 ..... 50 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin 36.16 ..... 62 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro 49.27 ..... 65 Paolo Savoldelli 52.56 ..... 68 Marzio Bruseghin 55.28 ..... 105 Filippo Pozzato 1.16.19 ..... 108 Fabian Cancellara 1.19.35 Retirements to date : AG2r Prévoyance Sylvain Calzati Agritubel Cédric Hervé " Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez " Romain Feillu Barloworld Enrico Degano Caisse d'Epargne Xabier Zandio Echaide Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone Geoffroy Lequatre " Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team Tomas Vaitkus Euskaltel - Euskadi Igor Anton Hernandez Française des Jeux Rémy Di Grégorio Lampre - Fondital Danilo Napolitano Predictor - Lotto Robbie McEwen Rabobank Oscar Freire Gomez Saunier Duval - Prodir Ruben Lobato Elvira T-Mobile Team Mark Cavendish " Michael Rogers " Patrik Sinkewitz Team CSC David Zabriskie " Stuart O'Grady Team Milram Brett Lancaster Total retirements : 21