 Roche held the leader's red jersey until stage 8, and also held the lead of the points, mountains and combination classifications at one stage in the race.On stage 8 Roche lost the jersey finishing eight seconds behind Daniel Moreno to fall one second behind in the general classification.After stage 13 Roche was 2nd overall but on a cold day to Andorra on stage 14 he dropped to 6th overall.