Tour de France, stage 6 summary

[Bob Martin]

Changes in stage 6 compared to stage 5

Biggest gainers by position :
+11 Tom Boonen
+10 Erik Zabel
+8 Oscar Freire Gomez
+2 William Bonnet
+2 Steven De Jongh
+2 Staf Scheirlinckx
+2 Simon Gerrans
+2 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho
+2 Robert Hunter
+2 Pieter Weening

Biggest losers by position :
-38 Bradley Wiggins
-14 Marcus Burghardt
-7 Giampaolo Cheula
-2 Alberto Contador Velasco
-2 Benoît Vaugrenard
-2 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios
-2 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau
-2 Thomas Dekker
-1 Andrey Kashechkin
-1 Cadel Evans
-1 Daniele Bennati

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:28 Tom Boonen
+0:12 Oscar Freire Gomez
+0:10 Erik Zabel
+0:04 Steven De Jongh
+0:02 Robert Hunter
+0:02 Gert Steegmans

Biggest losers by time :
-3:24 Bradley Wiggins
-2:00 Giampaolo Cheula
-2:00 Marcus Burghardt
-0:56 Félix Rafael Cardenas Ravalo
-0:53 David Zabriskie

Favourites by position :
+2 Paolo Savoldelli
+1 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro
-1 Vladimir Karpets
-1 Sylvain Chavanel
-1 Oscar Pereiro Sio
-1 Michael Rogers
-1 George Hincapie
-1 Cadel Evans
-1 Andrey Kashechkin
-2 Alberto Contador Velasco

Favourites by time :

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Fabian Cancellara 29.49.55
2 Andreas Klöden 0.33
3 Filippo Pozzato 0.35
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6 George Hincapie 0.43
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8 Vladimir Karpets 0.46
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14 Alberto Contador Velasco 0.55
15 Andrey Kashechkin 0.55
16 Cadel Evans 0.56
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18 Michael Rogers 0.57
19 Oscar Pereiro Sio 0.57
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22 Levi Leipheimer 1.00
23 Denis Menchov 1.00
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25 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 1.03
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32 Yaroslav Popovych 1.08
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34 Kim Kirchen 1.08
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36 Christophe Moreau 1.09
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39 Marzio Bruseghin 1.11
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44 Tadej Valjavec 1.14
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47 Carlos Sastre Candil 1.16
48 Frank Schleck 1.17
49 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre 1.17
50 Dario David Cioni 1.17
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53 Iban Mayo Diez 1.20
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56 Michael Boogerd 1.22
57 Manuel Beltran Martinez 1.22
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63 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin 1.26
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79 Sylvain Chavanel 1.56
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81 Alexandre Vinokourov 2.10
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123 Paolo Savoldelli 8.02
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142 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro 8.57

Retirements to date :
Agritubel Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez
Caisse d'Epargne Xabier Zandio Echaide
Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone Geoffroy Lequatre
Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team Tomas Vaitkus
Française des Jeux Rémy Di Grégorio
Team Milram Brett Lancaster
Total retirements : 6

[Dan Connelly]

Bob Martin wrote:

> Biggest losers by time :
> -3:24 Bradley Wiggins

A bit ironic.

[datakoll]

On Jul 13, 4:07 pm, Dan Connelly <d_j_c_o_n_n_e_l@y_a_h_o_o_._c_o_m>
wrote:

amazing! pooped
and G. Hincapie? tied for the yellow jersey in limbo!
wind? downhill was uphill.
what if? what if the mtn stages only had one bizzare du category climb
each?