Tour-de-France stage 2 summary

[Bob Martin]

Changes in stage 2 compared to stage 1

Biggest gainers by position :
+24 Peter Wrolich
+24 Maxim Iglinskiy
+24 Eduardo Gonzalo
+23 Stephane Goubert
+23 Ralf Grabsch
+23 Patrick Calcagni
+23 Paolo Tiralongo
+23 Mario Aerts
+23 Juan Manuel Garate
+23 Francisco Ventoso

Biggest losers by position :
-145 Bradley Wiggins
-131 Jimmy Casper
-124 Viatsjeslav Ekimov
-114 Magnus Backstedt
-112 Erik Dekker
-96 Bram De Groot
-92 Filippo Pozzato
-83 Gert Steegmans
-78 Matteo Tosatto
-74 José Angel Gomez
-69 Daniele Righi

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Robbie McEwen
+0:08 Tom Boonen
+0:02 Thor Hushovd

Biggest losers by time :
-13:25 Aitor Hernandez
-9:47 Filippo Pozzato
-9:24 Anthony Charteau
-9:24 Jimmy Casper
-9:24 Jimmy Engoulvent
-9:24 Magnus Backstedt
-9:24 Wilfried Cretskens
-9:24 Wim Vansevenant
-8:38 Erik Dekker
-8:38 Johan Vansummeren
-7:05 Bradley Wiggins

Favourites by position :
+21 Pietro Caucchioli
+21 David Moncoutié
+20 Georg Totschnig
+16 Damiano Cunego
+11 Michael Boogerd
+10 Stefano Garzelli
+10 Iban Mayo
+6 Denis Menchov
+6 Carlos Sastre
+5 Gilberto Simoni
+3 Levi Leipheimer
+1 Andreas Klöden
-1 Christophe Moreau
-1 Cadel Evans
-2 Serguei Gonchar
-2 Paolo Savoldelli
-2 Michael Rogers
-2 Floyd Landis
-2 Alejandro Valverde
-3 George Hincapie

Favourites by time :
-0:10 Stefano Garzelli
-0:10 Serguei Gonchar
-0:10 Pietro Caucchioli
-0:10 Paolo Savoldelli
-0:10 Michael Rogers
-0:10 Michael Boogerd
-0:10 Levi Leipheimer
-0:10 Iban Mayo
-0:10 Gilberto Simoni
-0:10 George Hincapie
-0:10 Georg Totschnig
-0:10 Floyd Landis
-0:10 Denis Menchov
-0:10 David Moncoutié
-0:10 Damiano Cunego
-0:10 Christophe Moreau
-0:10 Carlos Sastre
-0:10 Cadel Evans
-0:10 Andreas Klöden
-0:10 Alejandro Valverde

Favourites standings :
4 George Hincapie 0.10
.....
7 Alejandro Valverde 0.16
.....
9 Michael Rogers 0.18
10 Paolo Savoldelli 0.20
11 Floyd Landis 0.21
.....
14 Serguei Gonchar 0.22
.....
16 Cadel Evans 0.25
17 Christophe Moreau 0.25
.....
25 Andreas Klöden 0.29
.....
35 Levi Leipheimer 0.33
.....
51 Gilberto Simoni 0.37
.....
53 Denis Menchov 0.38
.....
55 Carlos Sastre 0.38
.....
77 Stefano Garzelli 0.43
.....
81 Iban Mayo 0.44
.....
87 Michael Boogerd 0.46
.....
110 Damiano Cunego 0.53
.....
120 Georg Totschnig 0.55
.....
126 Pietro Caucchioli 0.58
127 David Moncoutié 0.58

Retirements to date :
Liquigas Danilo Di Luca DNS 2 <<
Total retirements : 1

[Simon Brooke]

in message <3xbqg.10614$ST2....@newsfe5-win.ntli.net>, Bob Martin
('bob.m...@excite.com') wrote:

> Biggest losers by position :
> -145 Bradley Wiggins
> -131 Jimmy Casper
> -124 Viatsjeslav Ekimov
> -114 Magnus Backstedt

What happened to Big Magnus today? He was looking decidedly off-colour
long before the big stack. And did anyone pick up any real damage in the
stack? Do we assume that as the stack was in the last 3km it doesn't
affect standings?

--
si...@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

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