Tour de France, stage 20 summary

Changes in stage 20 compared to stage 19

Biggest gainers by position :
+2 Sébastien Chavanel
+2 Lilian Jégou
+2 Bram Tankink
+1 William Bonnet
+1 Thomas Lövkvist
+1 Steven De Jongh
+1 Stefan Schumacher
+1 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho
+1 Robert Förster
+1 Matteo Tosatto

Biggest losers by position :
-4 Thomas Voeckler
-3 Giampaolo Cheula
-2 Alexander Efimkin
-2 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga
-2 Sébastien Hinault
-1 Alessandro Ballan
-1 Alessandro Cortinovis
-1 Anthony Charteau
-1 Claudio Corioni
-1 Marzio Bruseghin
-1 Murilo Fischer

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:25 Daniele Bennati
+0:17 Thor Hushovd
+0:13 Erik Zabel
+0:09 Carlos Barredo Llamazales
+0:07 Steven De Jongh
+0:06 Lilian Jégou
+0:05 Yaroslav Popovych
+0:05 Xavier Florencio Cabre
+0:05 Tom Boonen
+0:05 Sébastien Chavanel

Biggest losers by time :
-4:03 Thomas Voeckler
-1:29 Anthony Charteau
-1:07 Alexander Efimkin
-1:07 Giampaolo Cheula
-1:07 Murilo Fischer
-1:03 Alessandro Ballan
-1:01 Sébastien Hinault
-0:54 Claudio Corioni
-0:46 Geraint Thomas
-0:37 Paolo Bossoni
-0:27 Sandy Casar

Favourites by position :
+1 Fabian Cancellara
-1 Marzio Bruseghin

Favourites by time :
+0:05 Yaroslav Popovych
+0:05 Fabian Cancellara
-0:10 Vladimir Karpets
-0:10 Tadej Valjavec
-0:10 Michael Boogerd
-0:10 Marzio Bruseghin
-0:10 Manuel Beltran Martinez
-0:10 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro
-0:10 Iban Mayo Diez
-0:10 Frank Schleck
-0:10 Dario David Cioni
-0:10 Christophe Moreau
-0:20 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Alberto Contador Velasco 91.00.26
2 Cadel Evans 0.23
3 Levi Leipheimer 0.31
4 Carlos Sastre Candil 7.08
5 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre 8.17
6 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 11.37
7 Kim Kirchen 12.18
8 Yaroslav Popovych 12.25
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10 Oscar Pereiro Sio 14.25
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12 Michael Boogerd 21.15
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14 Vladimir Karpets 24.15
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16 Iban Mayo Diez 27.09
17 Frank Schleck 31.48
18 Manuel Beltran Martinez 34.14
19 Tadej Valjavec 37.08
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24 George Hincapie 54.50
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37 Christophe Moreau 1.33.06
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41 Marzio Bruseghin 1.36.44
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51 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro 1.58.45
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56 Dario David Cioni 2.10.42
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80 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin 2.44.27
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100 Fabian Cancellara 3.15.48

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 Bradley Wiggins
" Cristian Moreni
" Geoffroy Lequatre
" Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto
" Nick Nuyens
" Rik Verbrugghe
" Staf Scheirlinckx
" Stéphane Augé
" Sylvain Chavanel
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 Denis Menchov
" Michael Rasmussen
" 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 : 48

Hey Bob,

Thanks for posting these throughout the tour.
It's been very helpful.

Best,

S.

"Bob Martin" wrote in message
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Changes in stage 20 compared to stage 19

Biggest gainers by position :
+2 Sébastien Chavanel
+2 Lilian Jégou
+2 Bram Tankink
+1 William Bonnet
+1 Thomas Lövkvist
+1 Steven De Jongh
+1 Stefan Schumacher
+1 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho
+1 Robert Förster
+1 Matteo Tosatto

Biggest losers by position :
-4 Thomas Voeckler
-3 Giampaolo Cheula
-2 Alexander Efimkin
-2 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga
-2 Sébastien Hinault
-1 Alessandro Ballan
-1 Alessandro Cortinovis
-1 Anthony Charteau
-1 Claudio Corioni
-1 Marzio Bruseghin
-1 Murilo Fischer

I want to agree that Bob has really added to the content here. A hell of a
lot more than you can say for me.

in 551368 20070729 201449 samson wrote:
Hey Bob,

Thanks for posting these throughout the tour.
It's been very helpful.

Best,

S.

You're welcome. I get a lot of pleasure from this newsgroup so it's
nice to be able to give something back.