Stage 2 : March 21, 2017 Pla de l'Estany - Banyoles (TTT) 41.3 km The NIL object The NIL object The NIL object The NIL object The NIL object The NIL object The NIL object The NIL object The NIL object The NIL object Changes in GC, stage 2 compared to stage 1 : Biggest gainers by position : +138 Samuel Sanchez +135 Alessandro De Marchi +125 Kilian Frankiny +124 Jonathan Castroviejo +107 Christopher Froome +105 Ruben Plaza +105 Marc Soler +104 Vasil Kiryienka +104 Johan Le Bon +103 Carlos Verona Biggest losers by position : -128 Jordi Simon -121 Cesare Benedetti -120 Nacer Bouhanni -112 Caio Godoy -112 Phil Bauhaus -110 Dion Smith -103 Diego Rosa -99 Guillaume Levarlet -98 Bert-Jan Lindeman -98 Nick Van Der Lijke -96 Martijn Tusveld Biggest gainers by time : +0:10 Tejay Van Garderen +0:10 Samuel Sanchez +0:10 Rohan Dennis +0:10 Kilian Frankiny +0:10 Brent Bookwalter +0:10 Ben Hermans +0:10 Alessandro De Marchi +0:08 Joey Rosskopf Biggest losers by time : -11:43 Dylan Page -11:07 Pedro Nicacio -10:51 Raphael Pires -10:16 Mateusz Taciak -10:14 Antonio Nibali -9:45 Sander Armee -8:50 Tiago Machado -7:26 Flavio Cardoso -7:24 Francois Bidard -7:18 Pascal Ackermann -7:18 Silvio Herklotz Favourites by position : +107 Christopher Froome +93 Mikel Landa +58 Tejay Van Garderen +42 Bauke Mollema +42 Andrew Talansky +35 Alberto Contador +25 Steven Kruijswijk +20 Louis Meintjes +11 Geraint Thomas +4 Adam Yates -1 Alejandro Valverde -9 Robert Gesink -13 Rafal Majka -16 Romain Bardet -30 Daniel Martin Favourites by time : +0:10 Tejay Van Garderen -0:34 Mikel Landa -0:34 Geraint Thomas -0:34 Christopher Froome -0:48 Alejandro Valverde -1:05 Bauke Mollema -1:05 Alberto Contador -1:14 Adam Yates -1:38 Steven Kruijswijk -1:38 Robert Gesink -2:03 Daniel Martin -2:05 Romain Bardet -2:17 Rafal Majka -2:48 Louis Meintjes -3:20 Andrew Talansky Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) : 1 Ben Hermans 5:17:18 (was 47th at 0:10) 2 Brent Bookwalter 0:00 (was 46th at 0:10) 3 Tejay Van Garderen 0:00 (was 61st at 0:10) 4 Rohan Dennis 0:00 (was 97th at 0:10) 5 Kilian Frankiny 0:00 (was 130th at 0:10) 6 Alessandro De Marchi 0:00 (was 141st at 0:10) 7 Samuel Sanchez 0:00 (was 145th at 0:10) 8 Geraint Thomas 0:44 (was 19th at 0:10) 9 Peter Kennaugh 0:44 (was 58th at 0:10) 10 Mikel Nieve 0:44 (was 94th at 0:10) ..... 12 Mikel Landa 0:44 (was 105th at 0:10) 13 Christopher Froome 0:44 (was 120th at 0:10) ..... 15 Alejandro Valverde 0:58 (was 14th at 0:10) ..... 22 Alberto Contador 1:15 (was 57th at 0:10) 23 Bauke Mollema 1:15 (was 65th at 0:10) ..... 27 Adam Yates 1:24 (was 31st at 0:10) ..... 39 Robert Gesink 1:48 (was 30th at 0:10) ..... 42 Steven Kruijswijk 1:48 (was 67th at 0:10) ..... 57 Daniel Martin 2:13 (was 27th at 0:10) ..... 61 Romain Bardet 2:15 (was 45th at 0:10) ..... 65 Rafal Majka 2:27 (was 52nd at 0:10) ..... 82 Louis Meintjes 2:58 (was 102nd at 0:10) ..... 100 Andrew Talansky 3:30 (was 142nd at 0:10) Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens: 1 Murilo Affonso 5 (unchanged) 2 Pierre Rolland 5 (unchanged) 3 Antonio Nibali 2 (unchanged) Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens: 1 Murilo Affonso 48 (unchanged) 2 Antonio Nibali 37 (unchanged) 3 Pierre Rolland 26 (unchanged) 4 Magno Prado Nazaret 23 (unchanged) 5 Jetse Bol 19 (was 5th with 18 points) 6 Axel Domont 10 (unchanged) 7 Brendan Canty 7 (unchanged) 8 Pavel Kochetkov 6 (unchanged) 9 Robert Gesink 4 (was 0 points) 10 Vasil Kiryienka 2 (was 0 points) Retirements to date : Stage Alexander Edmondson (Aus) Orica-Scott 2 <<< Antonio Piedra (Spa) Manzana Postobon 2 <<< Juan Sebastian Molano (Col) Manzana Postobon 2 <<< Luis Angel Mate (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 1 Meiyin Wang (Chn) Bahrain-Merida 1 Total retirements : 5