Changes in stage 7 compared to stage 6 Biggest gainers by position : +32 Ángel Vicioso +16 Marcus Ljungqvist +13 Allan Johansen +10 Sébastien Portal +6 Timothy Duggan +6 Timothy Duggan +6 Sylvain Calzati +6 Sylvain Calzati +6 Stéphane Augé +6 Stéphane Augé Biggest losers by position : -32 Jérôme Pineau -32 Jérôme Pineau -10 Frédéric Guesdon -9 Alessandro Ballan -9 José Ruiz -6 Bernhard Eisel -2 Janez Brajkovic -2 Joaquín Ortega -2 Johann Tschopp -2 José Antonio Redondo -1 Aitor Galdos Biggest gainers by time : +5:38 Ángel Vicioso +0:19 Samuel Sánchez +0:10 Alexander Vinokourov +0:04 Denis Menchov Biggest losers by time : -11:41 Aitor Galdos -11:41 Andoni Aranaga -8:35 Preben Van Hecke -8:28 José Antonio Lopez -7:46 Alessandro Ballan -7:46 Bernhard Eisel -7:46 Claudio Corioni -7:46 Frédéric Guesdon -7:46 Guennadi Mikhailov -7:46 Joaquín Ortega -7:46 Jérôme Pineau Favourites by position : +6 Iván Gutiérrez +6 Iván Gutiérrez +3 Giuseppe Guerini +3 Giuseppe Guerini +2 Isidro Nozal +2 Isidro Nozal +1 Serguei Ivanov +1 Serguei Ivanov +1 Samuel Sánchez +1 Marcos Serrano +1 Alexander Vinokourov -1 Iñigo Cuesta Favourites by time : +0:19 Samuel Sánchez +0:10 Alexander Vinokourov +0:04 Denis Menchov -0:10 Marcos Serrano -0:10 Francisco Mancebo -0:19 Serguei Ivanov -0:19 Serguei Ivanov -0:19 Iñigo Cuesta -0:19 Iván Gutiérrez -0:19 Iván Gutiérrez -0:19 Isidro Nozal -0:19 Isidro Nozal -0:19 Giuseppe Guerini -0:19 Giuseppe Guerini Top 3 and favourites standings : 1 Vladimir Karpets 22.21.05 2 Michael Rogers 0.40 3 Denis Menchov 0.40 4 Christophe Moreau 1.34 5 Oscar Sevilla 1.34 6 Francisco Mancebo 1.59 ..... 8 Marcos Serrano 2.39 ..... 15 Samuel Sánchez 4.03 16 Alexander Vinokourov 4.16 ..... 22 Iñigo Cuesta 5.18 ..... 53 Serguei Ivanov 11.44 ..... 61 Isidro Nozal 14.29 ..... 72 Giuseppe Guerini 16.54 ..... 93 Iván Gutiérrez 20.27 53 Serguei Ivanov 11.44 ..... 61 Isidro Nozal 14.29 ..... 72 Giuseppe Guerini 16.54 ..... 93 Iván Gutiérrez 20.27 Retirements to date : Ag2r Prévoyance Philip Deignan " Samuel Dumoulin Andalucia-Cayasur Juan Carlos Carinena Astana Aaron Kemps " Gregory Rast " Julien Mazet Bouygues Telecom Anthony Geslin " Dimitri Champion " Laurent Lefèvre Caisse d'Epargne Florent Brard " Imanol Erviti " Nicolas Portal " Oscar Pereiro Cofidis Bradley Wiggins " Maryan Hary Crédit Agricole Dmitriy Fofonov " William Bonnet Discovery Channel Allan Davis " Antonio Cruz " Tomas Vaitkus Euskaltel-Euskadi Andoni Lafuente " Jon Bru " Unai Etxebarria Française Des Jeux Benoît Vaugrenard " Mathieu Ladagnous " Rémy Di Gregorio Fuerteventura-Canarias Eladio Sánchez " Iker Flores " Javier Cherro Molina Gerolsteiner Beat Zberg " Johannes Frohlinger " Marcel Strauss " Markus Fothen " Markus Zberg " Ronny Scholz " Sebastian Lang " Tom Stamsnijder Karpin-Galicia Gustavo César Veloso Lampre-Fondital Daniele Bennati " Jaime Castañeda " Massimiliano Mori " Paolo Bossoni Liquigas Filippo Pozzato " Guido Trenti " Magnus Backstedt " Manuel Quinziato " Mauro Da Dalto Milram Andriy Grivko " Carlo Scognamiglio " Erik Zabel " Igor Astarloa " Niki Terpstra " Volodymyr Dyudya Predictor-Lotto Dominique Cornu " Fred Rodriguez " Johan Van Summeren Quickstep-Innergetic Geert Verheyen " Ivan Santaromita " Kevin Van Impe Rabobank Marc De Maar " Michael Boogerd " Sebastian Langeveld " Thorwald Veneberg Relax-GAM Julián Sánchez " Santiago Perez Saunier Duval-Prodir David Millar " Guido Trentin " José Alberto Benítez Slipstream-Chipotle Danny Pate " Huub Duyn " Michael Lange " Patrick McCarty T-Mobile Jakob Piil Team CSC Christian Vande Velde " Lars Bak " Stuart O'Grady Unibet.com Baden Cooke " Victor Hugo Peña Total retirements : 78