Tour de France, stage 8 summary

Stage 8 : Jul 8, Belfort - Porrentruy, 157.5 km

1 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ-Big Mat 3.56.10
2 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0.26
3 Tony Gallopin (Fra) RadioShack-Nissan
4 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Sky Procycling
5 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale
6 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Lotto Belisol Team
7 Christopher Froome (GBr) Sky Procycling
8 Denis Menchov (Rus) Katusha Team
9 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) RadioShack-Nissan
10 Frank Schleck (Lux) RadioShack-Nissan 0.30


Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+61 Christian Vande Velde
+52 Giampaolo Caruso
+51 Dmitriy Fofonov
+45 Blel Kadri
+42 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
+41 David Moncoutie
+39 Yury Trofimov
+39 Johnny Hoogerland
+39 Guillaume Levarlet
+39 Christophe Kern

Biggest losers by position :
-45 Vladimir Gusev
-36 Sebastien Hinault
-33 Andre Greipel
-32 Ruben Perez Moreno
-29 Daryl Impey
-29 Samuel Dumoulin
-27 Alessandro Petacchi
-26 Dries Devenyns
-26 Giovanni Bernaudeau
-26 Jurgen Roelandts
-26 Kris Boeckmans

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:26 Thibaut Pinot

Biggest losers by time :
-23:05 Andre Greipel
-23:05 Bram Tankink
-23:05 Gustav Erik Larsson
-23:05 Jan Ghyselinck
-23:05 Jimmy Engoulvent
-23:05 Julien Simon
-23:05 Kenny Robert van Hummel
-23:05 Mark Renshaw
-23:05 Matthieu Ladagnous
-23:05 Maxim Iglinskiy
-23:05 Ruben Plaza Molina

Favourites by position :
+42 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
+11 Frank Schleck
+9 Michele Scarponi
+6 Levi Leipheimer
+5 Jurgen Van Den Broeck
+3 Christopher Froome
+2 Ivan Basso
+1 Denis Menchov
-7 Bauke Mollema
-17 Robert Gesink

Favourites by time :
-0:04 Frank Schleck
-0:59 Michele Scarponi
-0:59 Levi Leipheimer
-0:59 Ivan Basso
-1:55 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
-9:51 Bauke Mollema
-16:15 Robert Gesink

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Bradley Wiggins 38:17:56 (unchanged)
2 Cadel Evans 0:10 (unchanged)
3 Vincenzo Nibali 0:16 (unchanged)
4 Denis Menchov 0:54 (was 5th at 0:54)
5 Haimar Zubeldia Aguirre 0:59 (was 6th at 0:59)
6 Christopher Froome 1:32 (was 9th at 1:32)
7 Maxime Monfort 2:08 (was 7th at 1:09)
8 Jurgen Van Den Broeck 2:11 (was 13th at 2:11)
9 Nicolas Roche 2:21 (was 8th at 1:22)
10 Rein Taaramae 2:27 (was 4th at 0:32)
.....
15 Frank Schleck 3:47 (was 26th at 3:43)
.....
18 Ivan Basso 4:12 (was 20th at 3:13)
.....
21 Levi Leipheimer 4:46 (was 27th at 3:47)
22 Michele Scarponi 5:37 (was 31st at 4:38)
.....
37 Bauke Mollema 14:27 (was 30th at 4:36)
.....
56 Robert Gesink 23:12 (was 39th at 6:57)
.....
59 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo 23:44 (was 101st at 21:49)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Peter Sagan 217 (unchanged)
2 Matthew Harley Goss 185 (unchanged)
3 Andre Greipel 172 (unchanged)
4 Mark Cavendish 129 (unchanged)
5 Alessandro Petacchi 109 (unchanged)
6 Edvald Boasson Hagen 95 (unchanged)
7 Tom Veelers 76 (unchanged)
8 Fabian Cancellara 74 (unchanged)
9 Cadel Evans 72 (was 13th with 47 points)
10 Kenny Robert Van Hummel 69 (was 9th with 69 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Fredrik Kessiakoff 21 (was 0 points)
2 Christopher Froome 20 (was 1st with 20 points)
3 Cadel Evans 18 (was 2nd with 16 points)
4 Thibaut Pinot 16 (was 0 points)
5 Bradley Wiggins 12 (was 3rd with 12 points)
6 Michael Morkov 9 (was 4th with 9 points)
7 Vincenzo Nibali 9 (was 5th with 8 points)
8 Tony Gallopin 9 (was 15th with 1 points)
9 Chris Anker Sorensen 8 (was 6th with 4 points)
10 Jeremy Roy 5 (was 0 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8
Johannes Frohlinger (Ger) Argos-Shimano 8
Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8
Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7
Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Saur - Sojasun 7
Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 7
Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Movistar Team 7
Jose Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Movistar Team 7
Maarten Wijnants (Bel) Rabobank Cycling Team 7
Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Katusha Team 7
Robert Hunter (RSA) Garmin-Sharp 7
Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Garmin-Sharp 7
Davide Vigano (Ita) Lampre - ISD 6
Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6
Thomas Danielson (USA) Garmin-Sharp 6
Wout Poels (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 6
Marcel Kittel (Ger) Argos-Shimano 5
Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 4
Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team 3
Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Sky Procycling 3
Total retirements : 20


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