Remark: this stage does not take part in the game.
F. Baldato
L. Jalabert
D. Abdoesjaparov
A. Ferrigato
G. Lombardi
T. Rominger
J. Museeuw
B. Thibout
B. Riis
A. Gontsjenkov
A sprint finish without the two favourites W. Nelissen and M. Cipollini.
They could not cope with the slope that started a few hundred yards before
the finish.
