Stage 8 : July 12, 2014, Tomblaine - Gerardmer La Mauselaine, 161 km 1 Blel Kadri (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3.49.28 2 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo 2.17 3 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 2.20 4 Richie Porte (Aus) Team Sky 2.24 5 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ.fr 2.28 6 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 7 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team 2.36 8 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 2.40 9 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2.48 10 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) IAM Cycling 2.54 Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 : Biggest gainers by position : +61 Blel Kadri +46 Daniel Navarro Garcia +41 Luis Angel Mate Mardones +41 Arnold Jeannesson +37 Thomas Voeckler +37 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga +30 Mickael Cherel +30 Michele Scarponi +29 Niki Terpstra +27 Jon Izaguirre Insausti Biggest losers by position : -35 Peter Sagan -26 Fabian Cancellara -21 Michael Albasini -18 Tom Dumoulin -17 Matteo Montaguti -16 Paul Voss -15 Daniele Bennati -15 Jean-Marie Bideau -15 Rudy Molard -15 Sebastien Minard -15 Sep Vanmarcke Biggest gainers by time : +2:20 Blel Kadri +0:06 Jurgen Van Den Broeck +0:03 Alberto Contador Velasco Biggest losers by time : -19:44 Ji Cheng -19:23 Davide Cimolai -19:04 Jack Bauer -19:04 Ramunas Navardauskas -18:48 Luca Paolini -18:33 Dries Devenyns -18:33 Sep Vanmarcke -18:27 Daniele Bennati -18:27 Tom Veelers -18:12 Alessandro De Marchi -18:12 Alexander Kristoff Favourites by position : +9 Alberto Contador Velasco +7 Jurgen Van Den Broeck +6 Rafal Majka +6 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver +5 Tejay van Garderen +4 Bauke Mollema +3 Richie Porte +3 Christopher Horner +3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte +2 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa -9 Simon Spilak -9 Andrew Talansky Favourites by time : +0:06 Jurgen Van Den Broeck +0:03 Alberto Contador Velasco -0:04 Richie Porte -0:16 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte -0:20 Tejay van Garderen -0:35 Bauke Mollema -0:41 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa -1:59 Christopher Horner -2:17 Andrew Talansky -8:14 Rafal Majka -14:02 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver -18:12 Simon Spilak Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Vincenzo Nibali 33:48:52 (unchanged) 2 Jakob Fuglsang 1:44 (was 2nd at 0:02) 3 Richie Porte 1:58 (was 6th at 1:54) 4 Michal Kwiatkowski 2:26 (was 4th at 0:50) 5 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 2:27 (was 8th at 2:11) 6 Alberto Contador Velasco 2:34 (was 15th at 2:37) 7 Romain Bardet 2:39 (was 9th at 2:11) 8 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa 2:52 (was 10th at 2:11) 9 Bauke Mollema 3:02 (was 13th at 2:27) 10 Jurgen Van Den Broeck 3:02 (was 17th at 3:08) ..... 13 Tejay van Garderen 3:34 (was 18th at 3:14) ..... 16 Andrew Talansky 4:22 (was 7th at 2:05) ..... 21 Christopher Horner 6:12 (was 24th at 4:13) ..... 135 Simon Spilak 58:48 (was 126th at 40:36) ..... 147 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver 1:01:37 (was 153rd at 47:35) ..... 175 Rafal Majka 1:13:13 (was 181st at 1:04:59) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Peter Sagan 267 (was 1st with 259 points) 2 Bryan Coquard 156 (was 2nd with 146 points) 3 Marcel Kittel 146 (was 3rd with 137 points) 4 Alexander Kristoff 117 (unchanged) 5 Mark Renshaw 101 (was 5th with 95 points) 6 Andre Greipel 98 (was 6th with 91 points) 7 Vincenzo Nibali 75 (was 12th with 53 points) 8 Blel Kadri 63 (was 42nd with 20 points) 9 Greg Van Avermaet 60 (was 7th with 60 points) 10 Tony Gallopin 56 (was 8th with 56 points) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Blel Kadri 17 (was 2nd with 5 points) 2 Cyril Lemoine 6 (was 1st with 6 points) 3 Sylvain Chavanel 6 (was 0 points) 4 Simon Yates 5 (was 13th with 1 points) 5 Jens Voigt 4 (was 3rd with 4 points) 6 Nicolas Edet 4 (was 4th with 4 points) 7 Luis Angel Mate Mardones 3 (was 5th with 3 points) 8 Thomas Voeckler 3 (was 6th with 3 points) 9 Pierre Rolland 2 (was 7th with 2 points) 10 Tom Jelte Slagter 2 (was 8th with 2 points) Retirements to date : Stage Bart De Clercq (Bel) Lotto Belisol 8 <<< Mathias Frank (Swi) IAM Cycling 8 <<< Danny van Poppel (Ned) Trek Factory Racing 7 Darwin Atapuma (Col) BMC Racing Team 7 Stef Clement (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team 7 Egor Silin (Rus) Team Katusha 6 Jesus Hernandez Blazquez (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo 6 Maximiliano Ariel Richeze (Arg) Lampre-Merida 6 Xabier Zandio Echaide (Spa) Team Sky 6 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 5 Andy Schleck (Lux) Trek Factory Racing 4 Gregory Henderson (NZl) Lotto Belisol 4 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team 2 Sacha Modolo (Ita) Lampre-Merida 2 Total retirements : 14