Stage winners?

In article <[email hidden]>,

JC said:

when a stage winner gets kicked out for failing a drug test while the tour
is still in progress...

1) does the rider who came second officially get recognized as the stage
winner eventually?
2) do the time bonuses get adjusted accordingly to the three runners-up?

I strongly suspect the time gaps don't get adjusted, simply because
subsequent stages will turn out the way they do partly due to tactics
inspired by the current GC standings. In other words, the time bonus
adjustments would make things less fair and more artificial, not the
other way around.

As for the stage wins, I don't have a good idea.

Rasmussen causes no adjustment in any way, as his team pulled him,

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JC said:

when a stage winner gets kicked out for failing a drug test while the tour
is still in progress...

Quoted message said:

1) does the rider who came second officially get recognized as the stage
winner eventually?

yes.

Quoted message said:

2) do the time bonuses get adjusted accordingly to the three runners-up?

dunno

Michael Rasmussen won't loose his stage wins, since there is no doping
charge against him. Only if he himself says "I doped" or someone finds
evidence aganinst him among the fine doctors in Italy there can be a
case. It's just about as likely as the entire Discovery/USP team hand
i hand with Dr. Ferrari and Dr. Fuentes proclaims "we doped".

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