Top 25 Riders After 6 Stages

Here are the top 25 riders in the 2007 Tour de France, through six stages.

CANCELLARA, Fabian
KLÖDEN, Andréas
POZZATO, Filippo
MILLAR, David
FREIRE, Oscar
HINCAPIE, George
GUSEV, Vladimir
KARPETS, Vladimir
ZABEL, Erik
ASTARLOZA, Mikel
DEKKER, Thomas
VAUGRENARD, Benoît
GUTIERREZ, José Ivan
CONTADOR, Alberto
KASHECHKIN, Andrey
EVANS, Cadel
PEREZ, Ruben
ROGERS, Michael
PEREIRO SIO, Oscar
GERDEMANN, Linus
FLECHA, Juan Antonio
LEIPHEIMER, Levi
MENCHOV, Denis
FOTHEN, Markus
VALVERDE, Alejandro

WOWSA, Cadel Evans has snuck quietly into the mix at 16th overall. Hincapie is still in there and Levi Leipheimer is sitting nicely at 22nd.

Poor Wiggins is now nine minutes and four seconds back of the leader and the last-place rider is a full 25 minutes and 19 seconds back.

Happy Bastille Day tomorrow.

Results of Stage 6

The top 10 finishers for the 6th stage of the 2007 Tour de France are...

1. Tom Boonen
2. Oscar Freire
3. Erik Zabel
4. Sebastian Chavanel
5. Thor Hushovd
6. Daniele Bennati
7. Robert Forster
8. Robert Hunter
9. Romain Feillu
10. Murilo Fischer

Overall standings coming up.

By the way, Wiggins, who jumped off the front at the 2KM mark stayed away until there were just 7KM left in the race. Looking now to see where he finished as he got dropped off the back of the peloton with a mere 5KM to go in the stage.

HUGE Escape

The Wiggins escape has now reached 15 minutes at the 50KM mark.

There are 199.5KM in today's stage 6.

According to Versus Television, Wiggins is currently 15'40" ahead of the peloton.

Only 183 Riders remaining

Here's the newsflash from Versus...

The 183 riders remaining in the 2007 Tour de France represent 26 countries.
The breakdown is:
39 – Spain. Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez (AGR) abandoned during stage one after a crash; Xabier Zandio abandoned during stage four because of injuries sustained in a crash in stage one.
34 – France. Remy Di Gregorio (FDJ) didn’t start stage five after fracturing his elbow in a fall early in stage four. Geoffroy Lequartre (COF) didn’t start stage six after being caught up in a crash in stage five.
19 – Germany
18 – Italy
13 – Belgium
7 – The Netherlands
6 – USA and Russia
5 – Great Britain, Switzerland and Australia. Brett Lancaster (MRM) abandoned during the fifth stage.
4 – Kazakhstan
3 – Austria and Colombia
2 – Belarus, Luxembourg, Norway and Ukraine
1 – South Africa, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, Portugal, Slovenia and Sweden
Lithuania had one reprentative but Toomas Vaitkus didn’t start stage three because of a broken thumb sustained in a crash at the end of stage two.

Stage 6 Underway

Erik Zabel is in Green and Stage 6 of the 2007 Tour de France is underway.

An early attack by Wiggins, nice weather and the glory of the French countryside. Sweet!