2002 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10

These are the profiles for the individual stages in the 2002 Tour de France, with the Prologue on July 6, Stage 1 on July 7, and Stage 10 on July 17.

tages

Prologue (Luxembourg)

As usual, the Tour started with a prologue, a short individual time trial, this time one of 7 km in Luxembourg. Armstrong won, which was not a surprise, since he is known as a very good time trialist. What was a surprise, was the second place of Frenchman Laurent Jalabert. Of the favourites, Moreau had a disappointing race, ending only 40th, 24 seconds behind Armstrong.

"Note:" David Millar got to wear the white jersey, as a rider cannot wear two leading jerseys at the same time. (Bertogliati leads white jersey standings as well.)

tage 2 (Luxembourg-Saarbrücken)

;Stage 2 Result

;General Classification after Stage 3

tage 5 (Soissons to Rouen)

Several attacks were made in the early part of the race, but none of these lasted very long until Jan Kirsipuu, Christophe Edalaine, Stefano Casagranda, Michael Sandstød and Ludo Dierckxsens escaped 85 km from the finish. The ONCE team of yellow jersey González de Galdeano led the peloton, but did not make attempts to catch the five back, since they were enough behind in the general classification (over 4 minutes) not to threaten González de Galdeano. This changed when the teams of the sprinters (with the notable exception of Zabel's Telekom team) took over the lead. However, they came too late, and the five got to sprint for the stage win. Kirsipuu showed that he was by far the best sprinter among them, and took the stage. Another sprinter, Belgian's Tom Steels was less lucky and was the first to abandon this year, Marco Pinotti also abandoned on this stage. McEwen won the sprint for sixth place, but Zabel's ninth place gave him just enough points to keep the green jersey.

;Stage 5 Result

;General Classification after Stage 6

tage 8 (Saint-Martin-de-Landelles-Plouay)

A group of seven escaped this time, consisting of Franck Rénier, Sébastien Hinault, Stéphane Augé, Erik Dekker, Karsten Kroon, Servais Knaven and Raivis Belohvoščiks. This time the work of the teams from ONCE (González de Galdeano and Beloki) and AG2R (Kirsipuu) was not enough to catch them back, and the seven were to decide who would win the stage. Dekker made several breakaway attempts, then had to drop back, but managed to return. Belohvoščiks seemed to have the best form of the seven, but his attacks were also countered. In the spurt, Kroon won, partly through excellent help from his team mate Dekker. Although it is known that on July 14 (Quatorze Juillet) the French riders always do a bit extra to try to win the stage, today it was the Netherlands that scored the first three places. Robbie McEwen won two points on Zabel in the first sprint, and one more at the finish, but it was not enough to take over the green jersey. Óscar Freire and Aart Vierhouten did not start today's stage.

;Stage 8 Result

;General Classification after Stage 9