If I was going to watch a person more closely it would be Wim Van
Huffel.

Bob Martin wrote:
Changes in stage 2 compared to stage 1

Biggest gainers by position :
+45 Wilfried Cretskens
+45 Ronny Scholz
+44 Sebastian Lang
+42 Wim Van Huffel
+41 Simone Cadamuro
+40 Mario Aerts
+39 Danilo Napolitano
+33 Thomas Ziegler
+33 Ramos Fernandez De La Puebla
+33 Mauro Santambrogio

Biggest losers by position :
-112 Alberto Contador
-111 Bradley Mc Gee
-111 Bradley Wiggins
-109 Rik Verbrugghe
-101 Tomas Vaitkus
-98 Koos Moerenhout
-90 Andoni Aranaga
-90 Stef Clement
-83 MichaÙl Blaudzun
-82 Eric Berthou
-73 Torsten Hiekmann

Biggest gainers by time :

Biggest losers by time :
-11:29 Graeme Brown
-11:29 Iker Flores
-6:40 Andoni Aranaga
-6:40 AurÚlien Clerc
-6:40 Daniele Colli
-6:40 Eddy Mazzoleni
-6:40 Eric Berthou
-6:40 Gustav Larsson
-6:40 Hans Dekkers
-6:40 Javier Meijas
-6:40 Jose Antonio Redondo

Favourites by position :
+14 Yaroslav Popovych
+13 Aitor Osa
+7 JosÚ Luis Rubiera
+6 Pietro Caucchioli
+5 JosÚ Azevedo
+5 Haimar Zubeldia
+5 David Zabriskie
+3 Floyd Landis
-70 Carlos Sastre

Favourites by time :
-0:10 Yaroslav Popovych
-0:10 Pietro Caucchioli
-0:10 JosÚ Luis Rubiera
-0:10 JosÚ Azevedo
-0:10 Haimar Zubeldia
-0:10 Floyd Landis
-0:10 David Zabriskie
-0:10 Bobby Julich
-0:10 Aitor Osa
-1:23 Carlos Sastre

Favourites standings :
2 Bobby Julich 0.17
8 Floyd Landis 0.25
18 JosÚ Azevedo 0.28
22 David Zabriskie 0.30
24 Haimar Zubeldia 0.30
31 Pietro Caucchioli 0.32
42 JosÚ Luis Rubiera 0.33
53 Aitor Osa 0.36
64 Yaroslav Popovych 0.37
122 Carlos Sastre 1.47

Retirements to date :
Bouygues Telecom Pierrick Fedrigo DNF 2
Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone Ivan Ramiro Parra HD 2
Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team Jason Mccartney DNF 1
Gerolsteiner Sven Montgomery DNF 2
Rabobank Gerben L÷wik DNS 2
Team CSC Christian Vandevelde DNF 2
Team Milram Mirko Celestino DNF 2
Total retirements : 7