Tour de France, stage 8 summary
 

Stage 8 : July 12, 2014, Tomblaine - Gerardmer La Mauselaine, 161 km

1 Blel Kadri (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 3.49.28
2 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo 2.17
3 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 2.20
4 Richie Porte (Aus) Team Sky 2.24
5 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ.fr 2.28
6 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
7 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team 2.36
8 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 2.40
9 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 2.48
10 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) IAM Cycling 2.54


Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+61 Blel Kadri
+46 Daniel Navarro Garcia
+41 Luis Angel Mate Mardones
+41 Arnold Jeannesson
+37 Thomas Voeckler
+37 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga
+30 Mickael Cherel
+30 Michele Scarponi
+29 Niki Terpstra
+27 Jon Izaguirre Insausti

Biggest losers by position :
-35 Peter Sagan
-26 Fabian Cancellara
-21 Michael Albasini
-18 Tom Dumoulin
-17 Matteo Montaguti
-16 Paul Voss
-15 Daniele Bennati
-15 Jean-Marie Bideau
-15 Rudy Molard
-15 Sebastien Minard
-15 Sep Vanmarcke

Biggest gainers by time :
+2:20 Blel Kadri
+0:06 Jurgen Van Den Broeck
+0:03 Alberto Contador Velasco

Biggest losers by time :
-19:44 Ji Cheng
-19:23 Davide Cimolai
-19:04 Jack Bauer
-19:04 Ramunas Navardauskas
-18:48 Luca Paolini
-18:33 Dries Devenyns
-18:33 Sep Vanmarcke
-18:27 Daniele Bennati
-18:27 Tom Veelers
-18:12 Alessandro De Marchi
-18:12 Alexander Kristoff

Favourites by position :
+9 Alberto Contador Velasco
+7 Jurgen Van Den Broeck
+6 Rafal Majka
+6 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver
+5 Tejay van Garderen
+4 Bauke Mollema
+3 Richie Porte
+3 Christopher Horner
+3 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
+2 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
-9 Simon Spilak
-9 Andrew Talansky

Favourites by time :
+0:06 Jurgen Van Den Broeck
+0:03 Alberto Contador Velasco
-0:04 Richie Porte
-0:16 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
-0:20 Tejay van Garderen
-0:35 Bauke Mollema
-0:41 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa
-1:59 Christopher Horner
-2:17 Andrew Talansky
-8:14 Rafal Majka
-14:02 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver
-18:12 Simon Spilak

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Vincenzo Nibali 33:48:52 (unchanged)
2 Jakob Fuglsang 1:44 (was 2nd at 0:02)
3 Richie Porte 1:58 (was 6th at 1:54)
4 Michal Kwiatkowski 2:26 (was 4th at 0:50)
5 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte 2:27 (was 8th at 2:11)
6 Alberto Contador Velasco 2:34 (was 15th at 2:37)
7 Romain Bardet 2:39 (was 9th at 2:11)
8 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa 2:52 (was 10th at 2:11)
9 Bauke Mollema 3:02 (was 13th at 2:27)
10 Jurgen Van Den Broeck 3:02 (was 17th at 3:08)
.....
13 Tejay van Garderen 3:34 (was 18th at 3:14)
.....
16 Andrew Talansky 4:22 (was 7th at 2:05)
.....
21 Christopher Horner 6:12 (was 24th at 4:13)
.....
135 Simon Spilak 58:48 (was 126th at 40:36)
.....
147 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver 1:01:37 (was 153rd at 47:35)
.....
175 Rafal Majka 1:13:13 (was 181st at 1:04:59)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Peter Sagan 267 (was 1st with 259 points)
2 Bryan Coquard 156 (was 2nd with 146 points)
3 Marcel Kittel 146 (was 3rd with 137 points)
4 Alexander Kristoff 117 (unchanged)
5 Mark Renshaw 101 (was 5th with 95 points)
6 Andre Greipel 98 (was 6th with 91 points)
7 Vincenzo Nibali 75 (was 12th with 53 points)
8 Blel Kadri 63 (was 42nd with 20 points)
9 Greg Van Avermaet 60 (was 7th with 60 points)
10 Tony Gallopin 56 (was 8th with 56 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Blel Kadri 17 (was 2nd with 5 points)
2 Cyril Lemoine 6 (was 1st with 6 points)
3 Sylvain Chavanel 6 (was 0 points)
4 Simon Yates 5 (was 13th with 1 points)
5 Jens Voigt 4 (was 3rd with 4 points)
6 Nicolas Edet 4 (was 4th with 4 points)
7 Luis Angel Mate Mardones 3 (was 5th with 3 points)
8 Thomas Voeckler 3 (was 6th with 3 points)
9 Pierre Rolland 2 (was 7th with 2 points)
10 Tom Jelte Slagter 2 (was 8th with 2 points)

Retirements to date : Stage
Bart De Clercq (Bel) Lotto Belisol 8
Mathias Frank (Swi) IAM Cycling 8
Danny van Poppel (Ned) Trek Factory Racing 7
Darwin Atapuma (Col) BMC Racing Team 7
Stef Clement (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team 7
Egor Silin (Rus) Team Katusha 6
Jesus Hernandez Blazquez (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo 6
Maximiliano Ariel Richeze (Arg) Lampre-Merida 6
Xabier Zandio Echaide (Spa) Team Sky 6
Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 5
Andy Schleck (Lux) Trek Factory Racing 4
Gregory Henderson (NZl) Lotto Belisol 4
Mark Cavendish (GBr) Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team 2
Sacha Modolo (Ita) Lampre-Merida 2
Total retirements : 14


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