31.   -- Overall leader Bjarne Riis after controlling the yellow jersey for the second week of the three-week race.

32.   A yellow jersey is worn by the overall leader of the Tour de France.

33.   Alberto Tomba, the overall World Cup leader, had been strong favorite to win his tenth straight race, beating his own season record of nine victories.

34.   American John Kostecki, skipper of Illbruck, the overall race leader, said he was not disappointed to finish fourth into Auckland.

35.   American John Kostecki, skipper of Illbruck, the overall race leader, said he was not disappointed to finish fourth.

36.   American Lance Armstrong was poised to easily retain the yellow jersey of the overall leader.

37.   At the time he had been the overall leader.

38.   Austrian Hans Knauss, the overall World Cup leader, said he felt uncomfortable at the diagonal, icy parts of the course.

39.   Baldato again won the final dash, beating out countryman Giovanni Lombardi to strengthen his hold on the yellow jersey of the overall leader.

40.   Bjoerndalen moved closer the World Cup overall leader Raphael Poiree of France, who was sixth in the race.