Volta a Portugal, stage 8 summary

[Bob Martin]

Changes in stage 8 compared to stage 7

Biggest gainers by position :
+7 Rui Sa
+7 Fco.Jose Torres
+6 William Frischkorn
+6 Stefano Boggia
+6 Pedro Soeiro
+6 Pedro Costa
+6 Paride Grillo
+6 Matteo Priamo
+6 Marco Cunha
+6 JoseA. Garrido

Biggest losers by position :
-14 Ricardo Martins
-12 Javier Cherro
-11 AlejandroM. Marques
-11 Filippo Savini
-10 LuisFelipe Laverde
-9 Carlos Nozal
-9 Luis Fernandez
-8 Celio Sousa
-7 Filipe Cardoso
-7 JoseRafael Martinez
-7 Vladimir Duma

Biggest gainers by time :

Biggest losers by time :
-15:59 Carlos Nozal
-15:59 Filipe Cardoso
-15:59 Pablo Urtasun
-15:54 Daniel Petrov
-15:09 Celestino Pinho
-15:09 Ricardo Martins
-14:55 Marcio Correia
-10:02 Denis Kudashev
-10:02 Luis Fernandez
-10:00 AlejandroM. Marques
-9:59 Vladimir Duma

Favourites by position :
+4 MarcosA. Serrano
+2 Angel Edo
+1 Joaquim Andrade
-1 Isidro Nozal

Favourites by time :
-0:10 Xavier Tondo
-0:10 Pedro Cardoso
-0:10 Oscar Sevilla
-0:10 Martin Garrido
-0:10 José Azevedo
-0:10 Francisco Mancebo
-0:10 Eladio Jimenez
-0:10 David Blanco
-0:10 David Bernabeu
-0:10 ClausMichael Möller
-0:10 Angel Edo
-0:24 Rui Sousa
-0:24 Rui Lavarinhas
-0:24 Pedro Arreitunandia
-0:24 Joaquim Andrade
-0:24 Isidro Nozal
-0:38 MarcosA. Serrano

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Candido Barbosa 35.19.19
2 Eladio Jimenez 0.27
3 David Blanco 0.38
4 José Azevedo 0.40
5 Xavier Tondo 0.47
6 Oscar Sevilla 1.04
7 David Bernabeu 1.08
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10 Pedro Cardoso 1.49
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15 Francisco Mancebo 2.12
16 ClausMichael Möller 2.14
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26 Isidro Nozal 3.45
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32 Rui Sousa 5.03
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37 Martin Garrido 6.22
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41 Pedro Arreitunandia 8.13
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44 Rui Lavarinhas 11.49
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56 Joaquim Andrade 18.54
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76 Angel Edo 30.55
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86 MarcosA. Serrano 38.04

Retirements to date :
Barloworld Fabrizio Guidi
Ceramica Flaminia Tomasz Marczynski
Ceramica Panaria-Navigare Guillermo Bongiorno
Fercase/Rota Dos Moveis Pedro Barnabe
Fuerteventura-Canarias Javier Ramirez
Karpin-Galicia Enrique Salgueiro
" Ezequiel Mosquera
Lampre-Fondital Enrico Franzoi
" Mauro Santambrogio
Relax-GAM Jorge Perez
Saunier Duval-Prodir Alberto Fernandez
" Jesus DelNero
" Luciano Pagliarini
" Rafael Serrano
" Raul Alarcon
Team Slipstream Thomas Peterson
Vitoria-ASC José Martins
Total retirements : 17