Stage 9 : Jul 13, Morzine-Avoriaz - Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, 204.5 km 1 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise des Jeux 5.38.10 2 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 3 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini 4 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 0.02 5 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Bbox Bouygues Telecom 6 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Astana 7 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 8 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 0.52 9 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha 2.07 10 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Team Radioshack Changes in GC, stage 9 compared to stage 8 : Biggest gainers by position : +53 Jens Voigt +42 Matthew Lloyd +41 Damiano Cunego +35 David De La Fuente Rasilla +31 Maxime Bouet +26 Lars Boom +26 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni +26 Christophe Moreau +26 Anthony Charteau +25 Pavel Brutt Biggest losers by position : -30 David Millar -24 Pierre Rolland -22 Alexandr Kolobnev -22 Christophe Kern -22 Rafael Valls Ferri -21 Thomas Voeckler -20 Charles Wegelius -20 Martin Elmiger -19 Alexander Kuschynski -19 Andriy Grivko -19 Jeremy Roy Biggest gainers by time : +0:22 Sandy Casar +0:22 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil +0:22 Damiano Cunego +0:20 Christophe Moreau +0:20 Anthony Charteau +0:20 Andy Schleck +0:20 Alberto Contador Velasco Biggest losers by time : -42:23 David Millar -34:52 Anthony Roux -34:47 Marcus Burghardt -34:35 Adriano Malori -34:35 Alessandro Petacchi -34:35 Alexandr Kolobnev -34:35 Alexandr Pliuschin -34:35 Andreas Klier -34:35 Andriy Grivko -34:35 Bernhard Eisel -34:35 Bert Grabsch Favourites by position : +12 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil +8 Lance Armstrong +8 Joaquin Rodriguez +4 Robert Gesink +3 Ivan Basso +2 Levi Leipheimer +1 Denis Menchov +1 Andy Schleck +1 Andreas Kloden +1 Alberto Contador Velasco -2 Bradley Wiggins -3 Carlos Sastre -4 Roman Kreuziger -17 Cadel Evans Favourites by time : +0:22 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil +0:20 Andy Schleck +0:20 Alberto Contador Velasco -1:45 Robert Gesink -1:45 Levi Leipheimer -1:45 Joaquin Rodriguez -1:48 Denis Menchov -2:28 Lance Armstrong -2:28 Ivan Basso -3:26 Roman Kreuziger -3:26 Andreas Kloden -4:33 Carlos Sastre -4:33 Bradley Wiggins -7:47 Cadel Evans Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Andy Schleck 43:35:41 (was 2nd at 0:20) 2 Alberto Contador Velasco 0:41 (was 3rd at 1:01) 3 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez 2:45 (was 9th at 2:15) 4 Denis Menchov 2:58 (was 5th at 1:10) 5 Jurgen Van Den Broeck 3:31 (was 4th at 1:03) 6 Levi Leipheimer 3:59 (was 8th at 2:14) 7 Robert Gesink 4:22 (was 11th at 2:37) 8 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil 4:41 (was 20th at 5:03) 9 Joaquin Rodriguez 5:08 (was 17th at 3:23) 10 Ivan Basso 5:09 (was 13th at 2:41) 11 Roman Kreuziger 5:11 (was 7th at 1:45) ..... 15 Carlos Sastre 7:13 (was 12th at 2:40) 16 Bradley Wiggins 7:18 (was 14th at 2:45) ..... 18 Cadel Evans 7:47 (was 1st at 0:00) ..... 20 Andreas Kloden 9:05 (was 21st at 5:39) ..... 31 Lance Armstrong 15:54 (was 39th at 13:26) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Thor Hushovd 124 (was 1st with 118 points) 2 Alessandro Petacchi 114 (unchanged) 3 Robbie McEwen 105 (unchanged) 4 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil 92 (unchanged) 5 Mark Cavendish 85 (unchanged) 6 Edvald Boasson Hagen 82 (unchanged) 7 Sebastien Turgot 79 (unchanged) 8 Geraint Thomas 74 (unchanged) 9 Gerald Ciolek 71 (unchanged) 10 Sylvain Chavanel 69 (unchanged) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Anthony Charteau 85 (was 18th with 14 points) 2 Jerome Pineau 85 (was 1st with 44 points) 3 Christophe Moreau 62 (was 44th with 1 points) 4 Damiano Cunego 56 (was 31st with 5 points) 5 Andy Schleck 50 (was 3rd with 30 points) 6 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil 47 (was 0 points) 7 Sandy Casar 43 (was 0 points) 8 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez 40 (was 6th with 26 points) 9 Sylvain Chavanel 36 (was 2nd with 36 points) 10 Alberto Contador Velasco 32 (was 13th with 16 points) Retirements to date : Stage Fabio Felline (Ita) Footon-Servetto 9 <<< Markus Eibegger (Aut) Footon-Servetto 9 <<< Roger Kluge (Ger) Team Milram 9 <<< Simon Gerrans (Aus) Sky Professional Cycling Team 9 <<< Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Team Katusha 9 <<< Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 7 Stijn Vandenbergh (Bel) Team Katusha 7 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 5 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Transitions 3 David Le Lay (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 3 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 3 Adam Hansen (Aus) Team HTC - Columbia 2 Mickael Delage (Fra) Omega Pharma-Lotto 2 Manuel Cardoso (Spa) Footon-Servetto 1 Mathias Frank (Swi) BMC Racing Team 1 Total retirements : 16