Changes in stage 12 compared to stage 11
Biggest gainers by position :
+7 Robert Hunter
+7 Mickael Delage
+7 Mathieu Ladagnous
+6 Geraint Thomas
+5 Stéphane Augé
+5 Ralf Grabsch
+5 Pieter Weening
+5 Paolo Longo Borghini
+5 Marcel Sieberg
+5 Leif Hoste
Biggest losers by position :
-24 Marcus Burghardt
-18 Johann Tschopp
-17 Enrico Poitschke
-16 Fred Rodriguez
-13 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi
-8 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin
-8 Sven Krauss
-7 Fabian Cancellara
-7 Giampaolo Cheula
-5 Andry Grivko
-5 Thomas Lövkvist
Biggest gainers by time :
+0:20 Tom Boonen
+0:12 Erik Zabel
+0:08 Robert Hunter
+0:08 Amets Txurruka
Biggest losers by time :
-9:27 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi
-9:27 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin
-9:27 Sven Krauss
-9:23 Marcus Burghardt
-6:38 Anthony Charteau
-6:34 Aleksandr Kuchynski
-6:34 Bram De Groot
-6:34 Enrico Poitschke
-6:34 Fabian Cancellara
-6:34 Fred Rodriguez
-6:34 Giampaolo Cheula
Favourites by position :
+2 Paolo Savoldelli
+2 Filippo Pozzato
+1 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro
-7 Fabian Cancellara
-8 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin
Favourites by time :
-6:34 Fabian Cancellara
-9:27 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin
Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Michael Rasmussen 57.37.10
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
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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
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18 Denis Menchov 7.10
19 Alexandre Vinokourov 8.05
20 Yaroslav Popovych 8.16
21 Vladimir Karpets 8.51
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25 Tadej Valjavec 11.05
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27 Manuel Beltran Martinez 13.29
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33 Michael Boogerd 20.07
34 Sylvain Chavanel 20.12
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37 George Hincapie 26.21
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46 Dario David Cioni 33.09
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58 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin 45.43
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61 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro 49.27
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63 Paolo Savoldelli 52.56
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68 Marzio Bruseghin 55.28
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103 Filippo Pozzato 1.16.19
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115 Fabian Cancellara 1.26.09
Retirements to date :
AG2r Prévoyance Sylvain Calzati
Agritubel Cédric Hervé
" Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez
" Romain Feillu
Barloworld Enrico Degano
Bouygues Telecom Stef Clement
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 Alberto Ongarato
" Brett Lancaster
Total retirements : 23