Stage 2 : July 02, 2017 Dusseldorf - Liege 203.5 km
1 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Quick-Step Floors 4.37.06
2 Arnaud Demare (Fra) FDJ
3 Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal
4 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data
5 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo
6 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida
7 Ben Swift (GBr) UAE Team Emirates
8 Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
9 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb
10 Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe
Changes in GC, stage 2 compared to stage 1 :
Biggest gainers by position :
+31 Mark Renshaw
+30 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck
+29 Yukiya Arashiro
+29 Rudiger Selig
+29 Roy Curvers
+29 Romain Hardy
+29 Robert Kiserlovski
+29 Rick Zabel
+29 Perrig Quemeneur
+29 Patrick Bevin
Biggest losers by position :
-180 Tony Martin
-166 Andrey Amador Bikkazakova
-166 Reto Hollenstein
-136 Dylan van Baarle
-136 Michael Schar
-119 Ignatas Konovalovas
-97 Cyril Lemoine
-93 Maurits Lammertink
-91 Albert Timmer
-83 Dmitriy Gruzdev
-79 Julien Vermote
Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Marcel Kittel
+0:06 Arnaud Demare
+0:04 Andre Greipel
Biggest losers by time :
-15:26 Reto Hollenstein
-15:26 Tom Leezer
-13:55 Luke Rowe
-9:53 Mickael Delage
-9:49 Dimitri Claeys
-9:46 Andrey Amador Bikkazakova
-9:46 Axel Domont
-9:46 Cyril Lemoine
-9:46 Marco Haller
-9:46 Matteo Bono
-9:46 Maurits Lammertink
Favourites by position :
+14 Bauke Mollema
+11 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio
+7 Romain Bardet
+7 Fabio Aru
+6 Thibaut Pinot
+6 Alberto Contador Velasco
+5 Richie Porte
+5 Rafal Majka
+5 Nairo Quintana
+5 Daniel Martin
+5 Andrew Talansky
+3 Simon Yates
Favourites by time :
Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Geraint Thomas 4:53:10 (unchanged)
2 Stefan Kung 0:05 (unchanged)
3 Marcel Kittel 0:06 (was 9th at 0:16)
4 Vasil Kiryienka 0:07 (was 3rd at 0:07)
5 Matteo Trentin 0:10 (unchanged)
6 Christopher Froome 0:12 (unchanged)
7 Jos van Emden 0:15 (unchanged)
8 Michal Kwiatkowski 0:15 (unchanged)
9 Edvald Boasson Hagen 0:16 (was 10th at 0:16)
10 Nikias Arndt 0:16 (was 11th at 0:16)
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26 Simon Yates 0:37 (was 29th at 0:37)
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44 Richie Porte 0:47 (was 49th at 0:47)
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48 Nairo Quintana 0:48 (was 53rd at 0:48)
49 Rafal Majka 0:49 (was 54th at 0:49)
50 Andrew Talansky 0:49 (was 55th at 0:49)
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52 Daniel Martin 0:49 (was 57th at 0:49)
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54 Thibaut Pinot 0:50 (was 60th at 0:50)
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56 Romain Bardet 0:51 (was 63rd at 0:51)
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59 Fabio Aru 0:52 (was 66th at 0:52)
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62 Alberto Contador Velasco 0:54 (was 68th at 0:54)
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105 Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio 1:13 (was 116th at 1:13)
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118 Bauke Mollema 1:18 (was 132nd at 1:18)
Top 10 on Points table
1 Marcel Kittel 63
2 Arnaud Demare 38
3 Andre Greipel 25
4 Sonny Colbrelli 24
5 Mark Cavendish 22
6 Taylor Phinney 21
7 Geraint Thomas 20
8 Thomas Boudat 20
9 Stefan Kung 17
10 Michael Matthews 17
Top 10 on Mountains table
1 Taylor Phinney 2
Retirements to date : Stage
Luke Durbridge (Aus) Orica-Scott 2 <<<
Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team 1
Jon Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 1
Total retirements : 3