Tour de France, stage 20 summary

[Bob Martin]

Changes in stage 20 compared to stage 19

Biggest gainers by position :
+6 Leif Hoste
+5 Thomas Lovkvist
+5 Brett Lancaster
+4 Stuart O'Grady
+4 Stef Clement
+4 Marzio Bruseghin
+3 Kim Kirchen
+3 Joost Posthuma
+3 Christophe Riblon
+2 Sylvain Chavanel

Biggest losers by position :
-4 Daniele Righi
-4 Frank Schleck
-4 Thomas Voeckler
-3 Martyn Maaskant
-3 Remy Di Gregorio
-2 Alejandro Valverde
-2 Alexandre Botcharov
-2 Dario Cioni
-2 David Arroyo
-2 Egoi Martinez
-2 Erik Zabel

Biggest gainers by time :
+2:34 Stefan Schumacher
+2:13 Fabian Cancellara
+1:33 Kim Kirchen
+1:29 Christian Vande Velde
+0:57 David Millar
+0:39 Denis Menchov
+0:29 Cadel Evans
+0:15 Sebastian Lang
+0:13 Bernhard Kohl
+0:06 George Hincapie

Biggest losers by time :
-8:45 Thomas Voeckler
-8:38 Matthieu Sprick
-8:30 Jimmy Engoulvent
-8:22 Wim Vansevenant
-8:20 Daniele Righi
-8:18 Johann Tschopp
-8:05 Frederik Willems
-7:46 Massimiliano Mori
-7:30 Heinrich Haussler
-7:24 Jose Vicente Garcia
-7:24 Marcus Burghardt

Favourites by position :
+3 Kim Kirchen
+2 Cadel Evans
+1 Samuel Sanchez
+1 Jens Voigt
+1 George Hincapie
+1 Denis Menchov
+1 Christian Vande Velde
-1 Vladimir Efimkin
-2 Alejandro Valverde
-4 Frank Schleck

Favourites by time :
+1:33 Kim Kirchen
+1:29 Christian Vande Velde
+0:39 Denis Menchov
+0:29 Cadel Evans
+0:06 George Hincapie
-0:24 Jens Voigt
-0:40 Samuel Sanchez
-1:28 Andy Schleck
-1:38 Vladimir Efimkin
-1:51 Alejandro Valverde
-3:04 Frank Schleck

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Carlos Sastre 84.01.00
2 Cadel Evans 1.05
3 Bernhard Kohl 1.20
4 Denis Menchov 2.00
5 Christian Vande Velde 3.12
6 Frank Schleck 4.28
7 Samuel Sanchez 6.32
8 Kim Kirchen 7.02
9 Alejandro Valverde 7.26
.....
11 Vladimir Efimkin 10.02
12 Andy Schleck 11.32
.....
35 George Hincapie 1.08.22
.....
37 Jens Voigt 1.11.55

Retirements to date : Stage
Christophe Brandt (Bel) Silence-Lotto 19
Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 15
Mark Cavendish (GBr) Columbia 15
Mauricio Soler (Col) Barloworld 5
Felix Rafael Cardenas (Col) Barloworld 11
Baden Cooke (Aus) Barloworld 12
Moises Duenas (Spa) Barloworld 11
Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld 11
Manuel Beltran (Spa) Liquigas 8
Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas 16
Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre 19
Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agricole 15
Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 15
Mauro Facci (Ita) Quick Step 7
John Gadret (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 7
Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 19
Christophe Moreau (Fra) Agritubel 7
Jimmy Casper (Fra) Agritubel 17
Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel 19
Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel 14
Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 19
Iouri Trofimov (Rus) Bouygues Telecom 10
Sebastien Chavanel (Fra) Francaise des Jeux 16
Lilian Jegou (Fra) Francaise des Jeux 7
Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval-Scott 12
Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Scott 12
Juan Jose Cobo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Scott 12
David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval-Scott 12
Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Scott 12
Angel Gomez Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval-Scott 3
Josep Jufre (Spa) Saunier Duval-Scott 12
Aurelien Passeron (Fra) Saunier Duval-Scott 6
Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Scott 12
Herve Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis 1
Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Garmin Chipotle - H30 7
Total retirements : 35

[Tom Kunich]

Bob, thanks for keeping us abreast of all of the latest movements in the
pack. I really appreciate that you are actually using the group for what it
was meant for.

Tom Kunich

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