Tour de France, stage 18 summary

Changes in stage 18 compared to stage 17

Biggest gainers by position :
+18 Matteo Tosatto
+14 Manuel Quinziato
+10 Julian Dean
+9 Markus Fothen
+7 Laurent Lefevre
+7 Daniele Bennati
+6 Martin Elmiger
+6 Daniele Righi
+6 Axel Merckx
+5 Sandy Casar

Biggest losers by position :
-9 Marcus Burghardt
-4 Mathieu Ladagnous
-3 Christophe Rinero
-3 Francisco Perez Sanchez
-3 Giampaolo Cheula
-3 Paolo Longo Borghini
-3 Ronny Scholz
-3 Thomas Dekker
-2 Andry Grivko
-2 Benjamin Noval Gonzalez
-2 Benoît Salmon

Biggest gainers by time :
+10:05 Daniele Bennati
+9:04 Martin Elmiger
+9:04 Markus Fothen
+9:03 Sandy Casar
+8:58 Axel Merckx
+8:48 Laurent Lefevre
+8:46 Jens Voigt
+8:40 Michael Boogerd
+6:16 Matteo Tosatto
+5:32 Daniele Righi

Biggest losers by time :
-2:54 Fabian Cancellara
-2:25 Frederik Willems
-2:25 Félix Rafael Cardenas Ravalo
-2:12 Marcus Burghardt
-2:06 Vladimir Gusev
-1:37 Anthony Charteau
-1:37 Freddy Bichot
-1:37 Giampaolo Cheula
-1:37 Ronny Scholz
-1:37 Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho
-1:37 Stefan Schumacher

Favourites by position :
+3 Michael Boogerd
+1 Christophe Moreau
-1 Vladimir Karpets
-1 Marzio Bruseghin
-1 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin
-1 Iban Mayo Diez
-1 Fabian Cancellara

Favourites by time :
+8:40 Michael Boogerd
+0:03 Yaroslav Popovych
+0:03 Cadel Evans
-0:47 Marzio Bruseghin
-0:47 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin
-0:47 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro
-0:47 Dario David Cioni
-2:54 Fabian Cancellara

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Alberto Contador Velasco 86.04.16
2 Cadel Evans 1.50
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 12.47
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11 Oscar Pereiro Sio 14.07
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13 Michael Boogerd 19.10
14 Iban Mayo Diez 22.14
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16 Vladimir Karpets 24.27
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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36 Christophe Moreau 1.29.20
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43 Marzio Bruseghin 1.34.39
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50 Iñigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro 1.52.45
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56 Dario David Cioni 2.04.29
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79 Juan Miguel Mercado Martin 2.38.33
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105 Fabian Cancellara 3.15.16

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