Stage One - 2007 Tour de France - July 8

Tour de France website ^ | 7/8/07 | Aeronaut

[leilani]

Chamber of Comm. weather for Kent today. It looks just so luscious. (Also for London & the final at Wimbledon, thank heavens).

[Vision]

Peloton only 28” behind. With some distance to go in the race.

[leilani]

Coming up on Farthing Common (Cat 4 climb). Hard to imagine anything in SE England meriting a cat 4, but there it is.

[Vision]

It will be fun to see how everybody deals with this.

[Vision]

Those leaders were literally blown away by the Peloton.

[Vision]

Get the hell out of the road!

[Vision]

What is up with all the flat tires?

[leilani]

lol! Dunno. Lots of flint in SE England though. ;-)

[Vision]

It’s strange to not see Discovery at the head of the Peloton.

[Vision]

Wow, great finish. McCuian? from the back of the field to win.

[leilani]

WHAT AN UPSET!
McKewen!!!!!!!!

[Vision]

McKewen was +1.09 yesterday. So no change to the field, but lots of drama.

[Aeronaut]

Man, the official tour website is poorly done this year. I haven’t found overall standings after stage one.

[Aeronaut]

I hope this formats OK. The top 25 overall...

OVERALL STANDING BY POINTS

Result after stage 1

Total distance covered: 203 km

Standing Rider Rider number bib Team Time Gaps
1.	CANCELLARA Fabian	33	TEAM CSC	04:47:51
2.	KLÖDEN Andréas	196	ASTANA	04:48:04	+ 00:00:13
3.	MILLAR David	201	SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR	04:48:12	+ 00:00:21
4.	HINCAPIE George	114	DISCOVERY CHANNEL TEAM	04:48:14	+ 00:00:23
5.	WIGGINS Bradley	149	COFIDIS CREDIT PAR TELEPHONE	04:48:14	+ 00:00:23
6.	GUSEV Vladimir	113	DISCOVERY CHANNEL TEAM	04:48:16	+ 00:00:25
7.	KARPETS Vladimir	15	CAISSE D'EPARGNE	04:48:17	+ 00:00:26
8.	HUSHOVD Thor	101	CREDIT AGRICOLE	04:48:20	+ 00:00:29
9.	VINOKOUROV Alexandre	191	ASTANA	04:48:21	+ 00:00:30
10.	DEKKER Thomas	54	RABOBANK	04:48:22	+ 00:00:31
11.	QUINZIATO Manuel	157	LIQUIGAS	04:48:23	+ 00:00:32
12.	VAUGRENARD Benoît	169	FRANCAISE DES JEUX	04:48:23	+ 00:00:32
13.	GUTIERREZ José Ivan	14	CAISSE D'EPARGNE	04:48:24	+ 00:00:33
14.	GRIVKO Andriy	184	TEAM MILRAM	04:48:24	+ 00:00:33
15.	ASTARLOZA Mikel	73	EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI	04:48:24	+ 00:00:33
16.	CONTADOR Alberto	112	DISCOVERY CHANNEL TEAM	04:48:26	+ 00:00:35
17.	KASHECHKIN Andrey	195	ASTANA	04:48:26	+ 00:00:35
18.	EVANS Cadel	41	PREDICTOR - LOTTO	04:48:27	+ 00:00:36
19.	BONNET William	102	CREDIT AGRICOLE	04:48:27	+ 00:00:36
20.	CHAVANEL Sylvain	141	COFIDIS CREDIT PAR TELEPHONE	04:48:27	+ 00:00:36
21.	ROGERS Michael	21	T-MOBILE TEAM	04:48:28	+ 00:00:37
22.	PEREIRO SIO Oscar	11	CAISSE D'EPARGNE	04:48:28	+ 00:00:37
23.	BOONEN Tom	171	QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC	04:48:29	+ 00:00:38
24.	GERDEMANN Linus	25	T-MOBILE TEAM	04:48:29	+ 00:00:38
25.	SAVOLDELLI Paolo	199	ASTANA	04:48:29	+ 00:00:38

[Vision]

Yep, my live page has the race as still going on. Hope it improves.

I got the standings from the NY Times link.

[Vision]

Why did Hincapie drop back a rank?

[Aeronaut]

Why did Hincapie drop back a rank?

Millar picked up some bonus seconds during the race.

[Vision]

Oh, that’s right.

[Vision]

“Discovery is now wearing green.”