Giro d'Italia, stage 8 summary

Stage 8 - Saturday, May 16: Morbegno - Bergamo, 209km

First 10 finishers :
1 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Team Columbia - Highroad 5.04.34 (41.567km/h)
2 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Columbia - Highroad 0.21
3 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes - Farnese Vini
4 Michael Rogers (Aus) Team Columbia - Highroad
5 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas
6 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo
7 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C.
8 Jackson Rodriguez (Ven) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli
9 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre - N.G.C.
10 Thomas Rohregger (Aut) Team Milram


Changes in stage 8 compared to stage 7 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+25 Arnold Jeannesson
+22 Ricardo Serrano
+22 Jonas Ljungblad
+21 Matthieu Sprick
+21 Marco Pinotti
+20 Vasili Kiryienka
+20 Gustavo Cesar Veloso
+18 Bjorn Schroder
+17 Filippo Pozzato
+16 Thomas Danielson

Biggest losers by position :
-23 Dmytro Grabovskyy
-21 Philip Deignan
-17 Marco Marzano
-16 Giovanni Visconti
-15 Enrico Gasparotto
-13 Johann Tschopp
-11 Allan Davis
-11 Paolo Tiralongo
-10 Charles Wegelius
-10 Eros Capecchi
-10 Francesco Gavazzi

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:33 Kanstantsin Siutsou
+0:04 Edvald Boasson Hagen

Biggest losers by time :
-19:01 Cameron Meyer
-19:01 Ronny Scholz
-18:51 Allan Davis
-18:51 Anders Lund
-18:51 Anthony Charteau
-18:51 Bartosz Huzarski
-18:51 Davide Vigano
-18:51 Dmytro Grabovskyy
-18:51 Eros Capecchi
-18:51 Francesco Reda
-18:51 Guillaume Le Floch

Favourites by position :
+7 Jens Voigt
+7 Fabian Cancellara
+3 Stefano Garzelli
-1 Marzio Bruseghin

Favourites by time :
-0:08 Thomas Lovkvist
-0:08 Stefano Garzelli
-0:08 Michael Rogers
-0:08 Marzio Bruseghin
-0:08 Levi Leipheimer
-0:08 Lance Armstrong
-0:08 Ivan Basso
-0:08 Gilberto Simoni
-0:08 Franco Pellizotti
-0:08 Denis Menchov
-0:08 Damiano Cunego
-0:08 Carlos Sastre
-5:16 Jens Voigt
-16:28 Fabian Cancellara

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Danilo Di Luca 33.13.35
2 Thomas Lovkvist 0.13
3 Michael Rogers 0.44
4 Levi Leipheimer 0.51
5 Denis Menchov 0.58
6 Ivan Basso 1.14
7 Carlos Sastre 1.24
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9 Franco Pellizotti 1.35
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11 Gilberto Simoni 2.09
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20 Marzio Bruseghin 3.24
21 Damiano Cunego 3.37
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25 Lance Armstrong 4.39
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36 Stefano Garzelli 6.49
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70 Jens Voigt 28.25
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156 Fabian Cancellara 1.14.30

Retirements to date : Stage
Julien Loubet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 8
Francisco Perez Sanchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 4
Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Fuji-Servetto 7
Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin - Slipstream 3
Ruslan Pidgornyy (Ukr) ISD 8
Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Rabobank 8
Matthias Russ (Ger) Team Milram 2
David Garcia Da Pena (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 5
Total retirements : 8