In the front group or 5 sec behind: Lance Armstrong, Jan
Ullrich, Tyler Hamilton, Oscar Sevilla, Aitor Gonzalez,
Sylvain Chavanel, Georg Totschnig, Gilberto Simoni, Roberto
Heras, Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano, Ivan Basso, Carlos Sastre,
Bobby Julich, Pietro Caucchioli, Michael Rasmussen.
3:53 behind: Haimar Zubeldia, Iban Mayo, Christophe Moreau,
Denis Menchov, Vladimir Karpets, David Moncoutie, Michael
Rogers, Santiago Botero.
4:06 behind: Alexandre Botcharov, Bradley McGee, Jakob Piil.
5:13 behind, and second to last: Juan Miguel Mercado.