Vuelta-a-Espana stage 3 summary

Bob Martin said:

Changes in stage 3 compared to stage 2

Biggest gainers by position :
+48 Francisco José Ventoso
+48 David De La Fuente
+39 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle
+32 Enrico Franzoi
+6 Sébastien Rosseler
+6 Daniel Moreno
+5 Thierry Marichal
+5 Olivier Kaisen
+5 Markel Irizar
+5 Marcel Strauss

Biggest losers by position :
-127 Cyril Lemoine
-124 Dmitriy Fofonov
-100 Kevin Van Impe
-30 Steve Zampieri
-8 Mads Kaggestad
-7 Enrico Poitschke
-5 Anthony Charteau
-4 Steve Morabito
-3 Alejandro Valverde
-3 Alessandro Spezialetti
-3 Andrey Kashechkin

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:08 Francisco José Ventoso

Biggest losers by time :
-14:59 Dmitriy Fofonov
-14:59 Enrico Poitschke
-14:59 Mads Kaggestad
-5:14 Anthony Charteau
-5:14 Cyril Lemoine
-1:11 Kevin Van Impe
-0:47 Steve Zampieri
-0:12 Aaron Kemps
-0:12 Addy Engels
-0:12 Aketza Peña
-0:12 Alberto Benítez

Favourites by position :
+5 Davide Rebellin
+5 Danilo Di Luca
+2 Samuel Sánchez
+2 Pietro Caucchioli
+2 Michael Rasmussen
+2 Haimar Zubeldia
+1 Markus Fothen
+1 Leonardo Piepoli
+1 Denis Menchov
+1 Carlos Sastre
-1 Oscar Pereiro
-1 Iban Mayo
-2 Vladimir Karpets
-2 Fabian Cancellara
-2 Dario David Cioni
-2 Daniele Nardello
-2 Alexandre Vinokourov
-3 Manuel Beltran
-3 Iñigo Cuesta
-3 Andrey Kashechkin
-3 Alejandro Valverde

Favourites by time :
-0:12 Vladimir Karpets
-0:12 Vladimir Gusev
-0:12 Samuel Sánchez
-0:12 Pietro Caucchioli
-0:12 Oscar Pereiro
-0:12 Michael Rasmussen
-0:12 Michael Boogerd
-0:12 Markus Fothen
-0:12 Manuel Beltran
-0:12 Leonardo Piepoli
-0:12 Iñigo Cuesta
-0:12 Iban Mayo
-0:12 Haimar Zubeldia
-0:12 Fabian Cancellara
-0:12 Denis Menchov
-0:12 Davide Rebellin
-0:12 Dario David Cioni
-0:12 Danilo Di Luca
-0:12 Daniele Nardello
-0:12 Carlos Sastre
-0:12 Andrey Kashechkin
-0:12 Alexandre Vinokourov
-0:12 Alejandro Valverde

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Thor Hushovd 10.10.33
2 Stuart O'Grady 0.11
3 Francisco José Ventoso 0.12
.....
9 Carlos Sastre 0.19
.....
11 Iñigo Cuesta 0.19
.....
13 Fabian Cancellara 0.23
.....
17 Oscar Pereiro 0.26
18 Alejandro Valverde 0.26
19 Vladimir Karpets 0.26
.....
30 Vladimir Gusev 0.28
.....
32 Manuel Beltran 0.28
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43 Daniele Nardello 0.30
.....
47 Alexandre Vinokourov 0.31
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49 Andrey Kashechkin 0.31
.....
56 Dario David Cioni 0.32
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59 Danilo Di Luca 0.32
60 Pietro Caucchioli 0.32
.....
65 Leonardo Piepoli 0.32
.....
80 Samuel Sánchez 0.37
81 Haimar Zubeldia 0.37
.....
83 Denis Menchov 0.37
.....
86 Iban Mayo 0.37
87 Michael Boogerd 0.37
.....
91 Michael Rasmussen 0.37
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95 Markus Fothen 0.38
.....
178 Davide Rebellin 3.09

Retirements to date :
Total retirements : 0

Mr. Martin,

I enjoy your posts, but I think think listing Gusev and Beltran as
"favorites" may be counter to Discovery's stated intention of having a
single leader, in this case Tom Danielson.

in 525104 20060828 211725 'Ed Sullivan said:

Mr. Martin,

I enjoy your posts, but I think think listing Gusev and Beltran as
"favorites" may be counter to Discovery's stated intention of having a
single leader, in this case Tom Danielson.

Actually, I call them "favourites" ;-)

It started as just riders I like whose progress I wanted to follow. I only began
adding people who might win when I began posting it here.