Tour de France, stage 8 summary

[Bob Martin]

Changes in stage 8 compared to stage 7

Biggest gainers by position :
+62 Johan Van Summeren
+56 Simon Gerrans
+56 Grégory Rast
+50 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi
+41 Jens Voigt
+41 Christian Vande Velde
+38 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho
+38 Michael Rasmussen
+37 Serguei Ivanov
+37 Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui

Biggest losers by position :
-70 David De La Fuente Rasilla
-62 Laurent Lefevre
-50 Xavier Florencio Cabre
-38 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga
-36 Sandy Casar
-35 David Millar
-34 Martin Elmiger
-34 Marzio Bruseghin
-34 Moises Duenas Nevado
-32 Thomas Dekker
-29 Igor Anton Hernandez

Biggest gainers by time :
+4:42 Michael Rasmussen
+1:47 Iban Mayo Diez
+1:18 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
+1:09 Frank Schleck
+1:09 Christophe Moreau
+1:09 Cadel Evans
+1:09 Andrey Kashechkin
+0:51 Alberto Contador Velasco
+0:47 Denis Menchov
+0:47 Carlos Sastre Candil

Biggest losers by time :
-35:05 Fred Rodriguez
-34:55 Bradley Wiggins
-34:51 Lilian Jégou
-34:45 Alberto Ongarato
-34:45 Aleksandr Kuchynski
-34:45 Alessandro Cortinovis
-34:45 Alexander Efimkin
-34:45 Andry Grivko
-34:45 Anthony Charteau
-34:45 Anthony Geslin
-34:45 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez

Favourites by position :
+38 Michael Rasmussen
+29 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro
+28 Iban Mayo Diez
+22 Paolo Savoldelli
+22 Alexandre Vinokourov
+19 Sylvain Chavanel
+19 Frank Schleck
+18 Manuel Beltran Martinez
+16 Carlos Sastre Candil
+14 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre
+14 Christophe Moreau
+14 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
+9 George Hincapie
+7 Michael Boogerd
+7 Denis Menchov
+7 Cadel Evans
+7 Andrey Kashechkin
+6 Tadej Valjavec
+4 Dario David Cioni
+3 Levi Leipheimer
+3 Alberto Contador Velasco
+1 Oscar Pereiro Sio
+1 Kim Kirchen
+1 Fabian Cancellara
-6 Andreas Klöden
-9 Yaroslav Popovych
-15 Vladimir Karpets
-22 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin
-27 Filippo Pozzato
-34 Marzio Bruseghin

Favourites by time :
+4:42 Michael Rasmussen
+1:47 Iban Mayo Diez
+1:18 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
+1:09 Frank Schleck
+1:09 Christophe Moreau
+1:09 Cadel Evans
+1:09 Andrey Kashechkin
+0:51 Alberto Contador Velasco
+0:47 Denis Menchov
+0:47 Carlos Sastre Candil
+0:23 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre
+0:13 Levi Leipheimer
+0:09 Oscar Pereiro Sio
+0:09 Manuel Beltran Martinez
-0:07 Andreas Klöden
-0:07 Alexandre Vinokourov
-0:43 Tadej Valjavec
-0:48 Kim Kirchen
-2:10 Michael Boogerd
-2:17 Vladimir Karpets
-3:18 Yaroslav Popovych
-4:01 Sylvain Chavanel
-13:04 Paolo Savoldelli
-13:04 George Hincapie
-14:55 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro
-18:37 Dario David Cioni
-24:59 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin
-29:23 Fabian Cancellara
-34:45 Marzio Bruseghin
-34:45 Filippo Pozzato

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Michael Rasmussen 39.37.42
2 Linus Gerdemann 0.43
3 Iban Mayo Diez 2.39
4 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 2.51
5 Andrey Kashechkin 2.52
6 Cadel Evans 2.53
7 Christophe Moreau 3.06
8 Alberto Contador Velasco 3.10
9 Frank Schleck 3.14
10 Denis Menchov 3.19
11 Carlos Sastre Candil 3.35
12 Andreas Klöden 3.46
13 Levi Leipheimer 3.53
14 Oscar Pereiro Sio 3.54
15 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre 4.00
16 Manuel Beltran Martinez 4.19
.....
19 Kim Kirchen 5.02
20 Tadej Valjavec 5.03
.....
22 Alexandre Vinokourov 5.23
23 Vladimir Karpets 6.09
.....
26 Michael Boogerd 6.38
.....
28 Yaroslav Popovych 7.32
.....
33 Sylvain Chavanel 10.50
.....
45 George Hincapie 20.19
.....
53 Dario David Cioni 26.26
.....
59 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin 29.31
.....
63 Paolo Savoldelli 30.48
.....
72 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro 36.27
.....
90 Marzio Bruseghin 42.28
.....
100 Filippo Pozzato 48.10
.....
107 Fabian Cancellara 51.38

Retirements to date :
Agritubel Cédric Hervé
" Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez
" Romain Feillu
Barloworld Enrico Degano
Caisse d'Epargne Xabier Zandio Echaide
Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone Geoffroy Lequatre
" Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto
Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team Tomas Vaitkus
Française des Jeux Rémy Di Grégorio
Lampre - Fondital Danilo Napolitano
Predictor - Lotto Robbie McEwen
Rabobank Oscar Freire Gomez
Saunier Duval - Prodir Ruben Lobato Elvira
T-Mobile Team Mark Cavendish
" Michael Rogers
Team CSC Stuart O'Grady
Team Milram Brett Lancaster
Total retirements : 17

 

[datakoll]

"Vino" beat George Hincapie by 13 seconds, beat Leaphimer by 6 more.
Gerdeman's coach owns a watch or is that to close to call or beyond
call? And remember that great team photo of Mayo and friends in
yellow? 13 seconds!
GO GEORGE!

 

[[email protected]]

Yesterday was one of the most exciting days I have seen quite some
time. This shows that cycling is moving to a new generation and
younger stars are finally beginning to emerge. Alberto Contador and
Chistophe Moreau were vey impressive. was supriised that Moreau did
not concentrate on catching Rasmussen. While those constant attacks
were exciting they wasted a lot of energy.

 

[Dan Connelly]

[email protected] wrote:
> Yesterday was one of the most exciting days I have seen quite some
> time.

Quite some time: In, what, maybe 12 stages?

Dan

 

[Kyle Legate]

Dan Connelly wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>> Yesterday was one of the most exciting days I have seen quite some
>> time.
>
> Quite some time: In, what, maybe 12 stages?
>
5 stages. Cancellera's last kilometer was more exciting than all of stage 8.

 

[[email protected]]

It's refreshing to know that cycling has a new generation of promising
riders who can climb.


On Jul 16, 10:07 pm, Kyle Legate <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dan Connelly wrote:
> > [email protected] wrote:
> >> Yesterday was one of the most exciting days I have seen quite some
> >> time.
>
> > Quite some time: In, what, maybe 12 stages?
>
> 5 stages. Cancellera's last kilometer was more exciting than all of stage 8.

 

[Kyle Legate]

[email protected] wrote:
> It's refreshing to know that cycling has a new generation of promising
> riders who can climb.
>
Every new generation does. I wasn't concerned.