Tour de France, stage 17 summary

Changes in stage 17 compared to stage 16

Biggest gainers by position :
+9 Wim Vansevenant
+8 Thor Hushovd
+8 Sébastien Hinault
+8 Sébastien Chavanel
+8 Sven Krauss
+8 Robert Förster
+8 Peter Wrolich
+8 Heinrich Haussler
+8 Gert Steegmans
+8 Geraint Thomas

Biggest losers by position :
-4 Julian Dean

Biggest gainers by time :
+3:10 Yaroslav Popovych
+3:10 Xavier Florencio Cabre
+3:10 Wim Vansevenant
+3:10 William Bonnet
+3:10 Vladimir Karpets
+3:10 Vladimir Gusev
+3:10 Tom Boonen
+3:10 Thor Hushovd
+3:10 Thomas Voeckler
+3:10 Thomas Lövkvist

Biggest losers by time :

Favourites by position :
+6 Fabian Cancellara
+4 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin
+4 Dario David Cioni
+3 Marzio Bruseghin
+3 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro
+3 George Hincapie
+3 Christophe Moreau
+1 Yaroslav Popovych
+1 Vladimir Karpets
+1 Tadej Valjavec
+1 Oscar Pereiro Sio
+1 Michael Boogerd
+1 Manuel Beltran Martinez
+1 Levi Leipheimer
+1 Kim Kirchen
+1 Iban Mayo Diez
+1 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre
+1 Frank Schleck
+1 Carlos Sastre Candil
+1 Cadel Evans
+1 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
+1 Alberto Contador Velasco

Favourites by time :
+3:10 Yaroslav Popovych
+3:10 Vladimir Karpets
+3:10 Tadej Valjavec
+3:10 Oscar Pereiro Sio
+3:10 Michael Boogerd
+3:10 Marzio Bruseghin
+3:10 Manuel Beltran Martinez
+3:10 Levi Leipheimer
+3:10 Kim Kirchen
+3:10 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin
+3:10 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro
+3:10 Iban Mayo Diez
+3:10 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre
+3:10 George Hincapie
+3:10 Frank Schleck
+3:10 Fabian Cancellara
+3:10 Dario David Cioni
+3:10 Christophe Moreau
+3:10 Carlos Sastre Candil
+3:10 Cadel Evans
+3:10 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
+3:10 Alberto Contador Velasco

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Alberto Contador Velasco 76.18.25
2 Cadel Evans 1.53
3 Levi Leipheimer 2.49
4 Carlos Sastre Candil 6.02
5 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre 6.29
6 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 10.18
7 Kim Kirchen 11.36
8 Yaroslav Popovych 12.50
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11 Oscar Pereiro Sio 14.07
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13 Iban Mayo Diez 22.14
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15 Vladimir Karpets 24.27
16 Michael Boogerd 27.50
17 Frank Schleck 28.38
18 Manuel Beltran Martinez 29.48
19 Tadej Valjavec 33.21
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26 George Hincapie 54.35
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37 Christophe Moreau 1.29.20
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42 Marzio Bruseghin 1.33.52
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50 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro 1.51.58
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56 Dario David Cioni 2.03.42
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78 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin 2.37.46
.....
104 Fabian Cancellara 3.12.22

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

Bob Martin wrote:

Biggest gainers by time :
+3:10 Yaroslav Popovych
+3:10 Xavier Florencio Cabre
+3:10 Wim Vansevenant
+3:10 William Bonnet
+3:10 Vladimir Karpets
+3:10 Vladimir Gusev
+3:10 Tom Boonen
+3:10 Thor Hushovd
+3:10 Thomas Voeckler
+3:10 Thomas Lövkvist

Reverse alphabetical order of first name? Hmmm...

in 550487 20070726 184916 Dan Connelly wrote:
Bob Martin wrote:

Biggest gainers by time :
+3:10 Yaroslav Popovych
+3:10 Xavier Florencio Cabre
+3:10 Wim Vansevenant
+3:10 William Bonnet
+3:10 Vladimir Karpets
+3:10 Vladimir Gusev
+3:10 Tom Boonen
+3:10 Thor Hushovd
+3:10 Thomas Voeckler
+3:10 Thomas Lövkvist

Reverse alphabetical order of first name? Hmmm...

I'll have a look at it. Should be GC order.

In article ,
Bob Martin wrote:

Biggest gainers by position :
+9 Wim Vansevenant

I momentarily went into shock when I saw this
until I remembered

DNS Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Cofidis
DNS Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Cofidis
DNS Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis
DNS Nick Nuyens (Bel) Cofidis
DNS Stphane Aug (Fra) Cofidis
DNS Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis
DNS Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank
DNF Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank

so all is well.

133 Sbastien Chavanel (Fra) Franaise des Jeux 3.28.51
134 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crdit Agricole 3.30.30
135 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3.31.32
136 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep - Innergetic 3.33.47
137 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 3.33.58
138 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crdit Agricole 3.34.53
139 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3.37.19
140 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Barloworld 3.38.57
141 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Predictor - Lotto 3.43.57

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Michael Press