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2002 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

cycling race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ3003025 ↗
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The 2002 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré was the 54th edition of the cycle race and was held from 9 June to 16 June 2002. The race started in Lyon and finished in Geneva. The race has no overall winner. Although Lance Armstrong originally won the event, he was stripped of the title due to violating anti-doping rules. In 2012, the United States Anti-Doping Agency disqualified him from his results after 1 August 1998. The verdict was confirmed by the UCI.

Teams

Fourteen teams, containing a total of 110 riders, participated in the race:

Route

General classification

Notes

References

Further reading

"54th Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré - 2.HC". Cycling News.

"Ciclismo" [Cycling] (PDF). El Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 9 June 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “2002 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.