Saturday 2 July 2011

Stage 1 GC confusion

With the crashes that occurred at both 8km and 3km to go there was initial confusion as to who finished where and who had lost time. I can confirm the main GC contenders and their overall GC positions and time gaps after day 1 below:

2nd Cadel Evans - 00' 03"
5th Jurgen Van den Broeck - 00' 06"
7th Andreas Kloden
10th Chris Horner
12th Frank Schleck
15th Damiano Cunego
17th Alexandre Vinokourov
19th Nicholas Roche
33rd Andy Schleck
38th Levi Leipheimer
39th Janez Brajkovic
44th Ivan Basso
50th Bradley Wiggins
75th Robert Gesink
79th Samuel Sanchez - 01' 20"
82nd Alberto Contador
96th Ryder Hesjedal - 01' 55"
99th Roman Kreuziger

Those numbers may look significant, especially the 01' 17" gap from Evans to Contador but with multiple bumpy stages between here and the mountains where team tactics and peleton breaks are likely...not forgetting more crashes PLUS tomorrows team time trial, I think the leader board might be changing a lot before we hit the Pyrenees.

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