1.   -- Yellow jersey holder Yevgeny Berzin on dropping out of his first Tour de France last year.

2.   Laurent Desbiens, another former yellow jersey holder earlier in the Tour, was sixth.

3.   Laurent Desbiens, another former yellow jersey holder earlier in the Tour, was fifth ahead of Calcaterra.

4.   The battle for the Tour of Italy title enters its final weekend as a duel between Italian pink jersey holder Paolo Savoldelli and American Tyler Hamilton.