Weather: Sunny to partly sunny all day, highs low to mid 80s
 
Stage winner: Fabian Cancellara (CSC) takes second prologuewin in four years with a dominant 13-second margin of victory over second-placeAndreas Klöden (Astaná). When he won in 2004 in Liège,Belgium, he became the first rider born in the 1980s to win a Tour stage.He becomes the first rider wearing the world time trial champions jerseyto win the Tour’s opening prologue. His average speed of 53.660kph becomesthe third-fastest prologue in Tour history (Chris Boardman holds the recordwith 55.152kph in 1994 and 54.193kph in 1998).
 
Race leader: Cancellara claims the yellow jersey for the secondtime of his career. Cancellara is only one of nine Swiss riders to wearthe Tour’s yellow jersey. He’s the third Team CSC rider to wear the maillotjaune (Zabriskie and Voigt in 2005).
 
Green jersey: Cancellara takes 15 points with the prologue victory,with Klöden second with 12 points and Hincapie third with 10.
 
King of the Mountains: No KoM points awarded.
 
Best Young Rider: Vladimir Gusev (Discovery Channel), fifthin the stage, was the fastest rider under 25, finishing 6sec ahead of ThomasDekker (Rabobank) and 7sec ahead of Benoit Vaugrenard (FDJeux) of France.Spanish rider Alberto Contador (Discovery Channel) was fourth at 10secadrift.
 
Best team: Astaná won the team competition with Klödensecond, Alexandre Vinokourov seventh and Andrey Kashechkin 16th. Team CSCis second at 2sec adrift and Discovery Channel third at 5sec off the pace.
 
Most aggressive rider: No prize awarded
 
Lanterne Rouge: Ruben Lobato – a Spanish rider on the SaunierDuval-Prodir team – was last at 1:51 off the pace.
 
Top American: George Hincapie (Discovery Channel) couldn’t quitefulfill his goal of snagging the maillot jaune, but finished in the topthree for the second year in a row in the opening prologue, finishing 23secoff the winning pace. Dave Zabriskie (CSC) was 11th at 32sec back and LeviLeipheimer (Discovery Channel) stopped the clock at 40sec slower in 26th.
 
The peloton: All 189 starters finished the prologue
 
Medical report: no report
 
Jury decisions: no rulingsForecast: Continued mild with partly cloudy skies, moderate chanceof afternoon showers, highs in the low to mid 80s