11.   Hard as Riis cycled he was unable to avert his fall from the podium places.

12.   He came through to clinch a podium place after the Finnish pair, Hanniken and JJ Lehto, were forced off.

13.   Home hopes are lying on three-time US champions Kyoko Ina and John Zimmerman, but they only have an outside chance at a podium place.

14.   Ackermann seemed certain to pick up the bronze but a late surge by his beer-drinking buddy Gottwald left him without a podium place.

15.   With Schumacher building steadily on his lead, the race for the remaining podium places continued between Montoya and Coulthard.

16.   Kjoerstad made up six places on the second leg to earn a World Cup podium place for the second time and get the better of Zingre-Graf.

17.   Montillet, a newcomer to the French team, earned her second podium place in as many weeks after finishing second in the downhill in Canada behind Seizinger.

18.   The Africans upped the tempo in the later stages and the podium places became evident in the final two kilometres.

19.   The last podium place went to Hakkinen.