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2009-07-16 11:45 AM

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I was just looking at the tour de France website and clicked on the team standings. they have the standings as

1. Saxo Bank     143h 47m 41s
2. AG2R             143h 48m 15s
3. Astana          143 h 48m 18s

How do they figure out the time for the team? do they take  a certain number of riders (3)? or do they use some strange formula.

Astana has 4 of the top 6 times. It would seem to me that they would have the best team time.

2009-07-16 1:07 PM
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Subject: RE: Question about Team standings

From Velonews.com: (http://tour-de-france.velonews.com/article/95186/the-explainer---tour-faqs)

 

With four riders in the top five spots at the Tour, how is not possible for Astana to be leading the overall team standings?

That’s because overall team standings are not based on individual riders’ positions on GC, but on the finishing times of each team’s top three riders every day.

Those times are then added to the team GC position. So, in theory, you could have a rider who might be two hours down on GC win a stage out of a break away that includes a teammate or two and suddenly vault that team into first place in the team standings. That’s pretty much what happened to Ag2r … except that Rinaldo Nocentini was also high enough in the overall standings to move into the yellow jersey for a few days.

2009-07-16 9:36 PM
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Awesome, I was wondering the same thing myself. Thanks for clarifying.
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