31.   Bobby Julich on Marco Pantani, who gained almost six minutes on Julich and nine minutes on Jan Ullrich to go into the overall lead.

32.   Belgian Gregoire De Mevius retained the overall lead.

33.   Belgian Andrei Tchmil won the seventh stage of the Paris-Nice cycling race but his countryman Franck Vandenbroucke retained the overall lead.

34.   Bo Hamburger of Denmark took over the overall lead from Erik Zabel of Germany.

35.   Both years, he lagged behind during later stages, but held on to his overall lead.

36.   British cyclist Rob Hayles won the sixth stage of the Le Tour de Langkawi on Wednesday, while Damian McDonald of Australia held the overall lead.

37.   But Indurain picked up minutes on his major rivals to hold onto the overall lead.

38.   But Rominger, who holds the one-hour world record, had built up such a large overall lead that the stage was formality.

39.   But that was enough to keep it in the overall World Cup lead after a win in the opening regatta of the series in Belgium three weeks ago.

40.   Cedric Vasseur stayed in the overall lead as the Tour entered its second week.