TOUR DE FRANCE
(Verdun)
Fourth stage, 215km from Huy to Verden: Laurent Jalabert (France) CSC-Tiscali, 5h 17m 49s 1, Ludo Dierckxsens (Belgium) Lampre-Daikin, same time 2, Damien Nazon (France) Bonjour, 7s behind 3, Fred Rodriguez (US) Domo-Farm Frites 4, Alessandro Petacchi (Italy) Fassa Bortolo 5, Sven Teutenberg (Germany) Festina 6, Robert Hunter
(S Africa) Lampre-Daikin 7, Stuart O'Grady (Australia) Credit Agricole 8, Paul Van Hyfte (Belgium) Lotto-Adecco 9, Sebastien Talabardon (France) Bigmat-Auber 10.
Overall standings: O'Grady 19h 32m 49s 1, Jalabert 18s behind 2, Christophe Moreau (France) Festina Watches 23s 3, Jens Voigt (Germany) Credit Agricole 26s 4, Igor Gonzalez-Galdeano (Spain) Once-Esorki 26s 5, Bobby Julich (US) Credit Agricole 27s 6, Lance Armstrong (US) US Postal Service 27s 7, Jan Ullrich (Germany) Deutsche Telekom 30s 8, Florent Brard (France) Festina Watches 30s 9, Santiago Botero (Colombia) Kelme-Costa Blanca 33s 10.
Also: Chris Jenner (NZ) 27m 6s 152.
