Changes in stage 16 compared to stage 15
Biggest gainers by position :
+46 Stéphane Augé
+35 Giampaolo Cheula
+32 Félix Rafael Cardenas Ravalo
+26 Lilian Jégou
+21 Christophe Rinero
+20 José Vicente Garcia Acosta
+18 José Luis Arrieta Lujambio
+18 David De La Fuente Rasilla
+17 Frederik Willems
+16 Michael Albasini
Biggest losers by position :
-9 Markus Fothen
-8 Kanstantin Siutsou
-8 Ludovic Turpin
-5 John Gadret
-4 Christian Knees
-4 Christophe Moreau
-4 Fabian Wegmann
-3 Jérôme Pineau
-3 Laurent Lefevre
-2 Denis Menchov
-1 Axel Merckx
Biggest gainers by time :
Biggest losers by time :
-42:49 Grischa Niermann
-42:49 Pieter Weening
-42:19 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni
-42:09 Alessandro Cortinovis
-42:09 Alexander Efimkin
-42:09 Andry Grivko
-42:09 Anthony Charteau
-42:09 Anthony Geslin
-42:09 Axel Merckx
-42:09 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez
-42:09 Benoît Salmon
Favourites by position :
+9 Marzio Bruseghin
+7 Fabian Cancellara
+6 Sylvain Chavanel
+4 Tadej Valjavec
+4 Iban Mayo Diez
+4 Frank Schleck
+4 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
+3 Yaroslav Popovych
+3 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro
+2 Michael Boogerd
+2 George Hincapie
+2 Dario David Cioni
+1 Oscar Pereiro Sio
+1 Manuel Beltran Martinez
+1 Kim Kirchen
+1 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre
+1 Carlos Sastre Candil
-2 Denis Menchov
-4 Christophe Moreau
Favourites by time :
-0:34 Levi Leipheimer
-0:47 Alberto Contador Velasco
-1:03 Cadel Evans
-2:12 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre
-2:26 Carlos Sastre Candil
-2:47 Oscar Pereiro Sio
-2:47 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
-3:31 Yaroslav Popovych
-5:02 Frank Schleck
-5:52 Michael Boogerd
-6:22 Kim Kirchen
-6:24 Iban Mayo Diez
-6:56 Manuel Beltran Martinez
-7:35 Tadej Valjavec
-9:10 Vladimir Karpets
-9:33 Sylvain Chavanel
-10:31 Marzio Bruseghin
-17:28 George Hincapie
-18:50 Denis Menchov
-23:49 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro
-29:40 Dario David Cioni
-42:09 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin
-42:09 Fabian Cancellara
-42:09 Christophe Moreau
Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Michael Rasmussen 76.15.15
2 Alberto Contador Velasco 3.10
3 Cadel Evans 5.03
4 Levi Leipheimer 5.59
5 Carlos Sastre Candil 9.12
6 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre 9.39
7 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 13.28
8 Kim Kirchen 14.46
9 Yaroslav Popovych 16.00
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12 Oscar Pereiro Sio 17.17
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14 Iban Mayo Diez 25.24
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16 Vladimir Karpets 27.37
17 Michael Boogerd 31.00
18 Frank Schleck 31.48
19 Manuel Beltran Martinez 32.58
20 Tadej Valjavec 36.31
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23 Denis Menchov 45.15
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26 Sylvain Chavanel 50.08
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29 George Hincapie 57.45
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40 Christophe Moreau 1.32.30
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45 Marzio Bruseghin 1.37.02
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53 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro 1.55.08
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60 Dario David Cioni 2.06.52
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82 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin 2.40.56
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110 Fabian Cancellara 3.15.32
Retirements to date :
AG2r Prévoyance Cyril Dessel
" Sylvain Calzati
Agritubel Cédric Hervé
" Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez
" Romain Feillu
Astana Alexandre Vinokourov
" Andreas Klöden
" Andrey Kashechkin
" Antonio Colom Mas
" Daniel Navarro Garcia
" Grégory Rast
" Maxim Iglinskiy
" Paolo Savoldelli
" Serguei Ivanov
Barloworld Enrico Degano
Bouygues Telecom Matthieu Sprick
" Stef Clement
Caisse d'Epargne Xabier Zandio Echaide
Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone Geoffroy Lequatre
" Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto
Crédit Agricole Christophe Le Mével
Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team Tomas Vaitkus
Euskaltel - Euskadi Igor Anton Hernandez
Française des Jeux Philippe Gilbert
" Rémy Di Grégorio
Lampre - Fondital Danilo Napolitano
Liquigas Filippo Pozzato
Predictor - Lotto Fred Rodriguez
" Robbie McEwen
Rabobank Oscar Freire Gomez
Saunier Duval - Prodir Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi
" Ruben Lobato Elvira
T-Mobile Team Mark Cavendish
" Michael Rogers
" Patrik Sinkewitz
Team CSC David Zabriskie
" Stuart O'Grady
Team Milram Alberto Ongarato
" Brett Lancaster
Total retirements : 39