Stage 7 - Notaresco-Termoli 181 km

1 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal 4:42:12
2 Davide Cimolai (Ita) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:00
3 Tim Merlier (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix 0:00
4 Matteo Moschetti (Ita) Trek - Segafredo 0:00
5 Andrea Pasqualon (Ita) Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 0:00
6 Fernando Gaviria (Col) UAE-Team Emirates 0:00
7 Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:00
8 Max Kanter (Ger) Team DSM 0:00
9 Filippo Fiorelli (Ita) Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 0:00
10 Juan Sebastian Molano (Col) UAE-Team Emirates 0:00

Changes in GC, stage 7 compared to stage 6 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+7 Vincenzo Albanese
+7 Michael Hepburn
+7 Filippo Tagliani
+6 Larry Warbasse
+5 Vadim Pronskiy
+5 Tim Merlier
+5 Lawrence Naesen
+5 Juan Sebastian Molano
+5 Jasper De Buyst
+5 Iljo Keisse

Biggest losers by position :
-9 Simon Carr
-8 Chris Hamilton
-5 Julius Van Den Berg
-5 Ruben Guerreiro
-4 Alberto Bettiol
-4 Callum Scotson
-4 David Dekker
-4 Mark Christian
-4 Nicolas Roche
-4 Paul Martens
-4 Pieter Serry

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Caleb Ewan
+0:06 Davide Cimolai
+0:04 Tim Merlier

Biggest losers by time :
-3:35 Edoardo Affini
-3:27 Cameron Meyer
-3:12 Albert Torres
-3:12 Chris Hamilton
-3:12 Nicolas Roche
-3:12 Pieter Serry
-2:56 Jonathan Castroviejo
-2:56 Salvatore Puccio
-2:56 Christopher Juul-Jensen
-2:53 Dries De Bondt
-2:43 Callum Scotson

Favourites by position :
+2 Joao Almeida
+2 Jai Hindley
+2 Fausto Masnada
-1 Tejay Van Garderen

Favourites by time :
-0:54 Bauke Mollema
-2:21 Tejay Van Garderen

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Attila Valter 26:59:18 (unchanged)
2 Remco Evenepoel 0:11 (unchanged)
3 Egan Bernal 0:16 (unchanged)
4 Aleksandr Vlasov 0:24 (unchanged)
5 Louis Vervaeke 0:25 (unchanged)
6 Hugh Carthy 0:38 (unchanged)
7 Damiano Caruso 0:39 (unchanged)
8 Giulio Ciccone 0:41 (unchanged)
9 Dan Martin 0:47 (unchanged)
10 Simon Yates 0:49 (unchanged)
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12 Daniel Felipe Martinez 1:06 (unchanged)
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16 Emanuel Buchmann 1:40 (unchanged)
17 Vincenzo Nibali 1:43 (unchanged)
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19 Pello Bilbao 2:01 (unchanged)
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22 Fausto Masnada 3:09 (was 24th at 3:09)
23 Jai Hindley 3:29 (was 25th at 3:29)
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26 Joao Almeida 4:49 (was 28th at 4:49)
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39 Bauke Mollema 15:26 (was 39th at 14:32)
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100 Tejay Van Garderen 45:50 (was 99th at 43:29)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Caleb Ewan 106 (was 4th with 56 points)
2 Tim Merlier 83 (was 3rd with 58 points)
3 Giacomo Nizzolo 76 (was 1st with 72 points)
4 Elia Viviani 69 (was 2nd with 68 points)
5 Davide Cimolai 66 (was 7th with 31 points)
6 Peter Sagan 57 (was 5th with 50 points)
7 Fernando Gaviria 42 (was 8th with 30 points)
8 Matteo Moschetti 42 (was 13th with 24 points)
9 Filippo Tagliani 39 (was 6th with 39 points)
10 Filippo Fiorelli 39 (was 11th with 28 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Gino Mader 26 (unchanged)
2 Geoffrey Bouchard 18 (unchanged)
3 Vincenzo Albanese 16 (unchanged)
4 Rein Taaramae 13 (unchanged)
5 Matej Mohoric 10 (unchanged)
6 Alessandro De Marchi 10 (unchanged)
7 Francesco Gavazzi 9 (unchanged)
8 Simon Pellaud 9 (was 10th with 6 points)
9 Egan Bernal 8 (was 8th with 8 points)
10 Simone Ravanelli 8 (was 9th with 8 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Bahrain - Victorious 80:59:58 (was 1st at 66:53:22)
2 INEOS Grenadiers 0:39 (unchanged)
3 Team BikeExchange 2:48 (unchanged)
4 Trek - Segafredo 3:48 (unchanged)
5 Deceuninck - Quick Step 5:47 (was 6th at 5:47)
6 EF Education - Nippo 6:10 (was 5th at 4:18)
7 Team DSM 12:55 (was 8th at 12:55)
8 Movistar Team 13:46 (was 7th at 11:58)
9 Team Jumbo-Visma 18:39 (unchanged)
10 Astana - Premier Tech 21:25 (unchanged)
11 UAE-Team Emirates 23:40 (unchanged)
12 BORA - hansgrohe 29:23 (unchanged)
13 Israel Start-Up Nation 38:19 (was 13th at 37:25)
14 EOLO-Kometa 43:17 (was 14th at 41:29)
15 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 46:32 (was 15th at 45:38)
16 Groupama - FDJ 48:05 (unchanged)
17 AG2R Citroen Team 58:48 (was 17th at 58:25)
18 Alpecin-Fenix 1:18:50 (unchanged)
19 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 1:21:41 (was 19th at 1:19:53)
20 Team Qhubeka ASSOS 1:24:16 (was 20th at 1:22:47)
21 Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 1:26:55 (was 21th at 1:26:16)
22 Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec 1:38:13 (was 22th at 1:37:34)
23 Lotto Soudal 2:01:04 (was 23th at 1:58:53)

Retirements to date : Stage
Domenico Pozzovivo (Team Qhubeka ASSOS) 7 <<<
Francois Bidard (AG2R Citroen Team) 6
Joe Dombrowski (UAE-Team Emirates) 6
Manuel Belletti (EOLO-Kometa) 6
Pavel Sivakov (INEOS Grenadiers) 6
Mikel Landa (Bahrain - Victorious) 5
Krists Neilands (Israel Start-Up Nation) 2
Felix Grosschartner (BORA - hansgrohe) 1
Total retirements : 8

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