Vuelta a Espana, stage 8 summary

Stage 8 : Sep 4, Villena - Xorret del Cati*, 190 km

1 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le credit en ligne 5.14.32
2 Serafin Martinez (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 0.54
3 Johann Tschopp (Swi) BBOX Bouygues Telecom
4 Jose-Luis Arrieta (Spa) Ag2R-La Mondiale
5 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha 1.29
6 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo
7 Igor Anton (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
8 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 1.32
9 Xavier Tondo (Spa) Cervelo Test Team
10 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Cervelo Test Team 1.35


Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+32 Philip Deignan
+32 Mauricio Ardila
+30 Jose Vicente Toribio
+29 Stefan Denifl
+29 Oscar Freire
+24 David Zabriskie
+22 Dominik Roels
+21 Jose-Luis Arrieta
+21 Jose Vincente Garcia Acosta
+18 Rinaldo Nocentini

Biggest losers by position :
-24 Enrico Gasparotto
-21 Mikael Cherel
-19 Pablo Urtasun
-18 Jean-Christophe Peraud
-16 Vincent Jerome
-14 Daniele Bennati
-14 Manuele Mori
-14 Xavier Florencio
-13 Allan Davis
-13 Danilo Hondo
-13 Manuel Ortega

Biggest gainers by time :
+2:03 David Moncoutie
+0:57 Serafin Martinez
+0:53 Johann Tschopp
+0:51 Jose-Luis Arrieta
+0:10 Vincenzo Nibali
+0:10 Joaquin Rodriguez
+0:10 Igor Anton
+0:09 Assan Bazayev
+0:07 Xavier Tondo
+0:04 Carlos Sastre

Biggest losers by time :
-19:24 Andreas Stauff
-19:24 Dominik Klemme
-19:24 Fabian Cancellara
-19:24 Sergio Carrasco
-19:12 Allan Davis
-19:12 Arnaud Labbe
-19:12 Benat Intxausti
-19:12 Christophe Riblon
-19:12 Daniele Righi
-19:12 Danilo Hondo
-19:12 David Vitoria

Favourites by position :
+24 David Zabriskie
+4 Carlos Sastre
+4 Andy Schleck
+3 Xavier Tondo
+3 Ruben Plaza
+3 Ezequiel Mosquera
+1 Vincenzo Nibali
+1 Joaquin Rodriguez
+1 Christian Vande Velde
-1 Luis-Leon Sanchez
-3 David Arroyo
-4 Roman Kreuziger
-5 Frank Schleck
-6 Denis Menchov
-13 Allan Davis

Favourites by time :
+0:10 Vincenzo Nibali
+0:10 Joaquin Rodriguez
+0:07 Xavier Tondo
+0:04 Carlos Sastre
-0:21 Ruben Plaza
-0:23 Ezequiel Mosquera
-0:57 Luis-Leon Sanchez
-0:57 Frank Schleck
-0:57 David Arroyo
-2:05 Denis Menchov
-6:33 Roman Kreuziger
-6:33 Andy Schleck
-8:03 David Zabriskie
-14:07 Christian Vande Velde
-19:12 Allan Davis

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Igor Anton 32:28:49 (was 2nd at 0:10)
2 Joaquin Rodriguez 0:00 (was 3rd at 0:10)
3 Vincenzo Nibali 0:02 (was 4th at 0:12)
4 Xavier Tondo 0:42 (was 7th at 0:49)
5 Marzio Bruseghin 1:10 (was 12th at 1:01)
6 Ruben Plaza 1:15 (was 9th at 0:54)
7 Ezequiel Mosquera 1:18 (was 10th at 0:55)
8 Nicholas Roche 1:19 (was 11th at 0:58)
9 Peter Velits 1:26 (was 5th at 0:16)
10 Tejay Van Garderen 1:26 (was 6th at 0:29)
.....
13 Frank Schleck 1:47 (was 8th at 0:50)
.....
16 David Arroyo 1:58 (was 13th at 1:01)
17 Carlos Sastre 2:11 (was 21st at 2:15)
18 Luis-Leon Sanchez 2:21 (was 17th at 1:24)
.....
20 Denis Menchov 3:16 (was 14th at 1:11)
.....
49 Roman Kreuziger 13:10 (was 45th at 6:37)
.....
87 Andy Schleck 36:33 (was 91st at 30:00)
.....
120 Allan Davis 54:45 (was 107th at 35:33)
121 Christian Vande Velde 55:15 (was 122nd at 41:08)
.....
163 David Zabriskie 1:12:24 (was 187th at 1:04:21)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Mark Cavendish 56 (unchanged)
2 Tyler Farrar 53 (unchanged)
3 Alessandro Petacchi 51 (unchanged)
4 Igor Anton 50 (was 5th with 41 points)
5 Philippe Gilbert 50 (was 4th with 50 points)
6 Joaquin Rodriguez 46 (was 6th with 34 points)
7 Vincenzo Nibali 44 (was 7th with 34 points)
8 Yauheni Hutarovich 33 (unchanged)
9 Koldo Fernandez De Larrea 30 (unchanged)
10 Daniele Bennati 28 (unchanged)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Serafin Martinez 36 (was 1st with 13 points)
2 David Moncoutie 26 (was 3rd with 6 points)
3 Dario Cataldo 8 (was 2nd with 8 points)
4 Johann Tschopp 7 (was 0 points)
5 Xavier Tondo 5 (was 4th with 5 points)
6 Vladimir Karpets 5 (was 5th with 5 points)
7 Niki Terpstra 5 (was 6th with 5 points)
8 Egoi Martinez 5 (was 7th with 5 points)
9 Sergio Carrasco 5 (was 8th with 5 points)
10 Oscar Pujol 3 (was 0 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Branislau Samoilau (Blr) Quick Step 8
Ian Stannard (GBR) Team Sky 8
Kjell Carlstrom (Fin) Team Sky 8
Lars-Petter Nordhaug (Nor) Team Sky 8
Peter Kennaugh (GBR) Team Sky 8
Simon Gerrans (Aus) Team Sky 8
Thomas Lofkvist (Swi) Team Sky 8
Juan-Antonio Flecha (Spa) Team Sky 7
Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team HTC-Columbia 4
Benjamin Swift (GBR) Team Sky 3
John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Team Sky 3
Arkaitz Duran (Spa) Footon-Servetto 2
Mickael Buffaz (Fra) Cofidis, le credit en ligne 2
Total retirements : 13


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In article ,
Bob Martin wrote:

Stage 8 : Sep 4, Villena - Xorret del Cati–, 190 km

1 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le credit en ligne 5.14.32
2 Serafin Martinez (Spa) Xacobeo Galicia 0.54
3 Johann Tschopp (Swi) BBOX Bouygues Telecom
4 Jose-Luis Arrieta (Spa) Ag2R-La Mondiale
5 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha 1.29
6 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo
7 Igor Anton (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
8 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 1.32
9 Xavier Tondo (Spa) Cervelo Test Team
10 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Cervelo Test Team 1.35



What happened to Serafin Martinez?
Simply not as strong as David Moncoutié?
Did his attempt to cover the break
by José Luis Arrieta at the foot of
the last climb take something out of him?

--
Old Fritz