Tour of California, stage 1 summary

Changes in stage 1 compared to stage 0

Biggest gainers by position :
+44 Graeme Brown
+29 Allan Davis
+22 Jonathan Garcia
+22 Greg Henderson
+19 Michael Sayers
+19 Mario Aerts
+18 Peter Wrolich
+12 Volker Ordowski
+12 Michael Rasmussen
+12 John Devine

Biggest losers by position :
-74 Tom Zirbel
-50 Alejandro Acton
-47 Garrett Peltonen
-40 Davide Frattini
-34 Robert Förster
-31 Brice Jones
-26 Sean Sullivan
-26 Steven Cozza
-18 Gustavo Artacho
-12 Michael Jones
-6 Brian Sheedy

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Graeme Brown
+0:10 Allan Davis
+0:06 Greg Henderson
+0:03 Hilton Clarke
+0:02 George Hincapie
+0:01 Shawn Milne
+0:01 Scott Zwizanski
+0:01 Robert Gesink
+0:01 Mathew Hayman
+0:01 Karl Menzies

Biggest losers by time :
-10:26 Emile Abraham
-3:32 Brian Sheedy
-3:32 Brice Jones
-3:32 Bryce Mead
-3:32 Caleb Fairly
-3:32 Chad Beyer
-3:32 Charles Dionne
-3:32 Christopher Stockburger
-3:32 Gustavo Artacho
-3:32 Henk Vogels
-3:32 Ken Hanson

Favourites by position :
+11 Paolo Bettini
+2 George Hincapie
-1 Jens Voigt
-1 Ivan Basso
-1 Fabian Cancellara
-1 Christopher Horner
-1 Bobby Julich

Favourites by time :
+0:02 George Hincapie
+0:01 Fabian Cancellara

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Levi Leipheimer 4.22.08
2 Jason Donald 0.01
3 Benjamin Jacques-Maynes 0.05
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6 Fabian Cancellara 0.06
7 George Hincapie 0.06
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12 Michael Rogers 0.09
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14 Jens Voigt 0.10
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20 Franco Pellizotti 0.13
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23 Bobby Julich 0.14
24 Ivan Basso 0.14
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26 Christopher Horner 0.14
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111 Paolo Bettini 0.42

Retirements to date :
CSC David Zabriskie
Total retirements : 1