Vuelta al Pais Vasco, stage 4 summary

[Bob Martin]

Changes in stage 4 compared to stage 3

Biggest gainers by position :
+45 Jens Voigt
+38 Laurens Ten Dam
+34 Wim Van Huffel
+34 Francisco Mancebo
+33 Rinaldo Nocentini
+26 Trent Lowe
+25 Nicki Sørensen
+24 Steve Zampieri
+22 Carl Naibo
+21 Igor Astarloa

Biggest losers by position :
-25 Julián Sánchez
-20 Hubert Dupont
-19 Morris Possoni
-16 José Bonilla
-16 José Lui Rubiera
-16 Sergio Paulinho
-14 Ángel Vallejo
-12 Rémy Di Gregorio
-11 Rodrigo García
-9 Pablo Lastras
-8 Javier Ramírez

Biggest gainers by time :
+2:13 Jens Voigt
+0:34 José Angel Gomez Marchante
+0:20 Tadej Valjavec
+0:20 Stefan Schumacher
+0:20 Samuel Sánchez
+0:20 Rinaldo Nocentini
+0:20 Koldo Gil
+0:20 Juan José Cobo
+0:20 Joaquím Rodríguez
+0:20 Giampaolo Caruso

Biggest losers by time :
-17:11 Julián Sánchez
-15:39 Mickaël Buffaz
-13:52 Björn Schröder
-13:52 Lars Bak
-13:52 Mirko Celestino
-13:52 Pablo Lastras
-13:52 Rubén Lobato
-13:52 Sergio Paulinho
-13:52 Thomas Voeckler
-12:57 Bobby Julich
-12:57 David De La Fuente

Favourites by position :
+34 Francisco Mancebo
+15 Dario Cioni
+11 Leonardo Piepoli
+7 Marcos Serrano
+6 Alberto Contador
+4 Carlos Sastre
+3 Damiano Cunego
+3 Cadel Evans
+2 Tadej Valjavec
+2 Samuel Sánchez
+2 Koldo Gil
+2 José Angel Gomez Marchante
+2 Joaquím Rodríguez
+2 Fränk Schleck
+2 Davide Rebellin
+2 Danilo Di Luca
+2 Alejandro Valverde
+1 Isidro Nozal
+1 Alexandre Botcharov
-2 José Antonio Redondo
-2 Iker Flores
-4 Serhiy Honchar
-6 Santiago Perez
-6 Manuel Beltrán
-6 Bobby Julich
-16 José Lui Rubiera

Favourites by time :
+0:34 José Angel Gomez Marchante
+0:20 Tadej Valjavec
+0:20 Samuel Sánchez
+0:20 Koldo Gil
+0:20 Juan José Cobo
+0:20 Joaquím Rodríguez
+0:20 Fränk Schleck
+0:20 Davide Rebellin
+0:20 Danilo Di Luca
+0:20 Damiano Cunego
+0:20 Cadel Evans
+0:20 Alejandro Valverde
+0:20 Alberto Contador
-0:32 Francisco Mancebo
-0:32 Alexandre Botcharov
-0:57 Constantino Zaballa
-5:43 Dario Cioni
-6:25 Leonardo Piepoli
-10:49 Serhiy Honchar
-10:49 Santiago Perez
-10:49 Marcos Serrano
-10:49 Iñigo Cuesta
-10:49 Isidro Nozal
-10:49 Iker Flores
-10:49 Carlos Sastre
-12:57 José Lui Rubiera
-12:57 Bobby Julich

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Ángel Vicioso 17.14.26
2 José Angel Gomez Marchante 1.46
3 Juan José Cobo 1.54
4 Tadej Valjavec 2.09
5 Koldo Gil 2.09
6 Joaquím Rodríguez 2.11
7 Samuel Sánchez 2.11
8 Davide Rebellin 2.11
9 Fränk Schleck 2.13
10 Damiano Cunego 2.17
11 Manuel Beltrán 2.20
12 Alejandro Valverde 2.21
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14 José Antonio Redondo 2.35
15 Oscar Sevilla 2.43
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17 Danilo Di Luca 2.55
18 Cadel Evans 3.00
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23 Alexandre Botcharov 4.18
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27 Alberto Contador 6.01
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32 Constantino Zaballa 7.06
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58 José Lui Rubiera 19.55
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70 Santiago Perez 25.50
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72 Leonardo Piepoli 26.51
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75 Serhiy Honchar 27.19
76 Francisco Mancebo 27.21
77 Dario Cioni 27.24
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80 Iker Flores 29.20
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85 Bobby Julich 31.37
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87 Iñigo Cuesta 32.14
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89 Isidro Nozal 32.28
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93 Carlos Sastre 34.14
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139 Marcos Serrano 1.00.31

Retirements to date :
Ag2r Prévoyance David Navas
" Samuel Dumoulin
" Sylvain Calzati
Astana Steve Morabito
Discovery Channel Allan Davis
" Fumiyuki Beppu
Française Des Jeux Bradley McGee
" Sébastien Joly
Gerolsteiner Beat Zberg
" Oliver Zaugg
" Ronny Scholz
Karpin-Galicia Carlos Castaño
" Juan Francisco Mouron Doldan
" Santos Gonzalez
Liquigas Francesco Failli
Milram Carlo Scognamiglio
Predictor-Lotto Chris Horner
Quickstep-Innergetic Bram Tankink
" Giovanni Visconti
" Serge Baguet
Rabobank Michael Rasmussen
" Thomas Dekker
Saunier Duval-Prodir Iban Mayo
T-Mobile Giuseppe Guerini
" Michael Rogers
Unibet.com Alexander Khatuntsev
" Michal Golas
" Sergey Kolesnikov
" Victor Hugo Peña
Total retirements : 29