Remark: this stage does not take part in the game.
David Millar (UK) became the surprise winner of the 16 km time trial which started this edition of the Tour de France. Usually the first day of a Tour de France contains a prologue but this time trial was too long to be called a prologue. Only the top two of the prologue of last year (Armstrong and Zulle) managed to finish in the top ten of this stage.
Three cyclists dropped out today because they failed a blood test.