Vuelta-a-Espana stage 16 summary

Changes in stage 16 compared to stage 15

Biggest gainers by position :
+28 José Antonio Redondo
+21 Kurt-Asle Arvesen
+17 Iñigo Landaluze
+15 Jean-Patrick Nazon
+15 Francisco José Ventoso
+14 Sebastian Siedler
+14 Oscar Pereiro
+14 Mads Kaggestad
+14 Fabien Patanchon
+14 Enrico Poitschke

Biggest losers by position :
-11 Carlos Barredo
-10 Iban Mayo
-8 Pieter Mertens
-8 Thor Hushovd
-7 Janez Brajkovic
-7 Matteo Carrara
-7 Steve Morabito
-6 Ryder Hesjedal
-5 David Loosli
-5 Eric Leblacher
-5 Laszlo Bodrogi

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:31 Igor Anton

Biggest losers by time :
-25:16 Mario De Sarraga
-23:26 Heinrich Haussler
-23:26 Robert Förster
-21:09 Bastiaan Giling
-20:59 Fred Rodriguez
-20:59 Pieter Weening
-20:49 Addy Engels
-20:49 Alberto Ongarato
-20:49 Alexandre Usov
-20:49 Assan Bazayev
-20:49 Aurélien Clerc

Favourites by position :
+14 Oscar Pereiro
+8 Pietro Caucchioli
+5 Iñigo Cuesta
+5 Daniele Nardello
+3 Manuel Beltran
+3 Haimar Zubeldia
+3 Dario David Cioni
+2 Samuel Sánchez
+2 Leonardo Piepoli
+2 Alexandre Vinokourov
+1 Danilo Di Luca
-1 Vladimir Karpets
-2 Vladimir Gusev
-2 Andrey Kashechkin
-4 Michael Rasmussen
-10 Iban Mayo

Favourites by time :
-0:04 Alexandre Vinokourov
-0:12 Samuel Sánchez
-0:17 Carlos Sastre
-0:31 Manuel Beltran
-1:08 Danilo Di Luca
-1:17 Andrey Kashechkin
-2:00 Vladimir Karpets
-2:00 Pietro Caucchioli
-2:00 Leonardo Piepoli
-2:00 José Ange Gomez Marchante
-4:15 Oscar Pereiro
-4:19 Iñigo Cuesta
-5:45 Haimar Zubeldia
-5:45 Dario David Cioni
-11:29 Vladimir Gusev
-14:54 Daniele Nardello
-18:55 Iban Mayo
-20:23 Michael Rasmussen

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Alejandro Valverde 63.18.16
2 Alexandre Vinokourov 1.42
3 Carlos Sastre 1.42
4 Andrey Kashechkin 2.05
5 José Ange Gomez Marchante 4.23
6 Manuel Beltran 5.34
7 Danilo Di Luca 5.56
8 Vladimir Karpets 6.29
9 Samuel Sánchez 7.53
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17 Leonardo Piepoli 13.15
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25 Vladimir Gusev 25.19
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28 Iñigo Cuesta 30.45
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30 Pietro Caucchioli 33.11
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34 Dario David Cioni 35.27
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37 Iban Mayo 37.26
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41 Haimar Zubeldia 43.32
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46 Oscar Pereiro 53.49
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54 Daniele Nardello 1.03.19
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58 Michael Rasmussen 1.06.51

Retirements to date :
AG2R Prevoyance Cyril Dessel DNS 16
Astana Team Luis León Sánchez DNF 11
Bouygues Telecom Anthony Geslin DNF 16
" Christophe Kern DNF 11
" Jérôme Pineau DNF 11
" Mathieu Claude DNF 9
" Rony Martias DNF 10
" Xavier Florencio DNS 16
Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone Hervé Duclos-Lassalle DNF 11
Credit Agricole Anthony Charteau DNF 10
" Mark Renshaw DNF 16
Davitamon-Lotto Josep Jufre DNF 8
" Robbie Mcewen
" Wim De Vocht DNF 9
Euskaltel-Euskadi Inaki Isasi DNF 9
Française des Jeux Bernhard Eisel DNS 16
" Christophe Detilloux
" Freddy Bichot
" Frédéric Finot
Gerolsteiner Andrea Moletta DNF 12
" Davide Rebellin DNS 15
" Marcel Strauss DNS 10
" Markus Fothen DNF 12
" René Haselbacher DNS 16
" Sven Montgomery DNF 12
Lampre-Fondital Danilo Napolitano DNF 16
" Marco Marzano DNF 8
" Ruggero Marzoli DNS 15
Liquigas Charles Wegelius DNF 5
" Luca Paolini DNS 16
Phonak Hearing Systems Miguel A. Martín Perdiguero DNF 5
" Nicolas Jalabert DNF 9
" Steve Zampieri DNF 7
Rabobank Denis Menchov DNS 11
" Michael Boogerd DNS 16
Relax-Gam Jesús Hernández DNF 16
" Nacor Burgos DNF 16
Saunier Duval-Prodir Juan José Cobo DNF 9
" Ángel Gómez Gómez DNF 12
T-Mobile Team André Greipel DNF 9
" André Korff DNS 5
" Bernhard Kohl DNF 9
" Lorenzo Bernucci DNS 13
" Thomas Ziegler DNF 9
Team CSC Fabian Cancellara DNS 16
Team Milram Alessandro Petacchi DNS 16
" Volodymyr Dyudya
Total retirements : 47

in message , Bob Martin
') wrote:

Changes in stage 16 compared to stage 15

Brilliant rides by Igor Anton and Redondo.

Congratulations to the Scottish Tourist Board for sponsoring the weather -
if we can't get one of the Grand Tours to come to Scotland, at least we
can export Scottish weather to give the pro peloton a taste of the
delights they'd experience if they did come... Shame David Millar couldn't
take advantage of it.

More seriously, did one of the Caise d'Epargne/Iles Balears bikes have an
SRAM groupset on today? I caught a glimpse of levers that definitely
weren't Shimano and didn't look like Campag.

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

'there are no solutions, only precipitates'

Simon Brooke schreef:
More seriously, did one of the Caise d'Epargne/Iles Balears bikes have an
SRAM groupset on today? I caught a glimpse of levers that definitely
weren't Shimano and didn't look like Campag.

Dunno. But Kodak/Sierra Nevada does have them:
http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/photos...06/sanraf1.jpg


--
E. Dronkert

Ewoud Dronkert wrote:
Simon Brooke schreef:
More seriously, did one of the Caise d'Epargne/Iles Balears bikes have an
SRAM groupset on today? I caught a glimpse of levers that definitely
weren't Shimano and didn't look like Campag.

Dunno. But Kodak/Sierra Nevada does have them:
http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/photos...06/sanraf1.jpg


--
E. Dronkert

What a great battle between Vino and Valverde. Vino kept trying to
distance himself but Valverde had an answer each time. With every
attack they dropped the other riders immediately: Danielson, Devolder,
Sastre, Sanchez etc. Vino finally gave up towards the end, realizing it
wasn't going to happen today.


Andre