Dauphin‚ Lib‚r‚, stage 4 summary

Changes in stage 4 compared to stage 3

Biggest gainers by position :
+61 Igor Antón
+59 Leonardo Piepoli
+48 Kevin Seeldraeyers
+48 Alexandre Botcharov
+47 Sylvester Szmyd
+46 Chris Anker Sørensen
+44 Sylvain Calzati
+41 Rémi Pauriol
+40 Leonardo Duque
+38 Ludovic Turpin

Biggest losers by position :
-95 Alejandro Valverde
-77 George Hincapie
-71 Raivis Belohvosciks
-51 David Millar
-49 Serguei Ivanov
-47 Robert Gesink
-41 Bobby Julich
-39 Rik Verbrugghe
-37 Manuel Quinziato
-37 Maxim Iglinsky
-36 Francisco Pérez

Biggest gainers by time :
+2:06 Christophe Moreau
+0:58 Sylvester Szmyd
+0:45 Igor Antón
+0:15 Denis Menchov
+0:15 Cadel Evans
+0:10 Manuel Beltrán
+0:10 Levi Leipheimer
+0:10 Leonardo Piepoli
+0:10 Haimar Zubeldia
+0:06 David Zabriskie

Biggest losers by time :
-26:48 Alejandro Valverde
-26:48 José Vicente Garcia
-20:24 Magnus Backstedt
-20:02 André Greipel
-20:02 Anthony Geslin
-20:02 Björn Leukemans
-20:02 Carlo Scognamiglio
-20:02 Enrico Franzoi
-20:02 Fabio Sacchi
-20:02 George Hincapie
-20:02 Gert Steegmans

Favourites by position :
+59 Leonardo Piepoli
+27 Manuel Beltrán
+26 Oscar Pereiro
+23 Haimar Zubeldia
+20 Mikel Astarloza
+19 Alberto Contador
+18 Iñigo Cuesta
+13 Christophe Moreau
+1 Denis Menchov
+1 Cadel Evans
+1 Andrey Kashechkin
-2 David Zabriskie
-19 Alexander Vinokourov
-41 Bobby Julich
-49 Serguei Ivanov
-51 David Millar
-77 George Hincapie
-95 Alejandro Valverde

Favourites by time :
+2:06 Christophe Moreau
+0:15 Denis Menchov
+0:15 Cadel Evans
+0:10 Manuel Beltrán
+0:10 Levi Leipheimer
+0:10 Leonardo Piepoli
+0:10 Haimar Zubeldia
+0:06 David Zabriskie
+0:06 Alberto Contador
+0:02 Andrey Kashechkin
-0:40 Mikel Astarloza
-1:25 Iñigo Cuesta
-1:49 Oscar Pereiro
-1:53 Tadej Valjavec
-5:14 Alexander Vinokourov
-13:46 David Millar
-14:37 Bobby Julich
-20:02 Serguei Ivanov
-20:02 George Hincapie
-26:48 Alejandro Valverde

Top 3 and favourites standings :
1 Andrey Kashechkin 16.17.21
2 Christophe Moreau 0.14
3 Denis Menchov 0.25
4 Cadel Evans 0.26
5 David Zabriskie 0.26
6 Levi Leipheimer 0.53
.....
8 Haimar Zubeldia 3.15
9 Alberto Contador 3.15
10 Manuel Beltrán 3.34
11 Tadej Valjavec 3.50
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16 Mikel Astarloza 4.19
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20 Alexander Vinokourov 5.14
21 Iñigo Cuesta 5.14
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26 Leonardo Piepoli 6.04
27 Oscar Pereiro 6.28
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61 David Millar 15.19
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65 Bobby Julich 17.41
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89 George Hincapie 22.05
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96 Serguei Ivanov 24.24
.....
104 Alejandro Valverde 28.00

Retirements to date :
Crédit Agricole Christophe Le Mevel
Discovery Channel Tom Danielson
Lampre-Fondital Jaime Castañeda
" Massimiliano Mori
Liquigas Roberto Petito
Milram Igor Astarloa
Predictor-Lotto Christophe Brandt
Rabobank Graeme Brown
" Marc De Maar
" Theo Eltink
T-Mobile André Korff
" Bert Grabsch
Total retirements : 12

What is significant is 3 Frenchmen in the top 13. What's Dessel doing
18 minutes behind?

I'm pulling for Moreau.