2000 Tour de France

The 2000 Tour de France was the 87th edition, held from 1 to 23 July, and has no overall winner: Lance Armstrong originally won, but on 24 August 2012 the United States Anti-Doping Agency disqualified him from all results since 1 August 1998, including his seven Tours, and the UCI confirmed the decision. The favourites were Armstrong, Jan Ullrich, back after missing 1999 through injury, and 1998 winner Marco Pantani. David Millar won the first stage, two seconds ahead of Armstrong; ONCE won the stage 4 team time trial and put Laurent Jalabert in yellow with eight ONCE riders in the top ten.

The race turned at Hautacam, where Javier Otxoa won the stage but Armstrong, second, took the jersey with Ullrich already more than four minutes back; Pantani won on Mont Ventoux and again on stage 15, yet Armstrong matched him on the Ventoux and extended his lead over Ullrich to 7:26 before the German cut it to 5:37. The white jersey for the best young rider, not worn since 1989, was awarded again from 2000. Twenty teams of nine were entered, 177 riders started after pre-race health checks, and the high point was the Col du Galibier at 2,642 m on stage 15.