Internet Tour de France Game 2009

The Internet Tour de France Game 2009 was a free competition organized on the Internet in which participants attempted to predict the results of the stages of the cycling race Tour de France 2009. Each participant selected a team of 15 cyclists and the team members earned points when they finished in the top 10 of a stage. The participant with the team that collected the largest number of points after the Tour de France was the winner of this game.

• News about the game
• Description of the game
• Game participants: All 547 teams (big) | Search
• History of the Internet TdF Game
• Cyclist list Tour de France 2009
• Dropouts Tour de France 2009
• The most favorite cyclists of the game participants
• Stage top ten positions in 2004-2008
• Optimal team for the game in 2009

The Tour 2009 has started on Saturday July 4 in Monaco and finished on Sunday July 26 in Paris. The race contained two individual time trials, one team trial, 18 regular stages and two rest days. Information about this event can be obtained from the official site.

Stage results

Winner stage 21: Bastin Verweij (The Netherlands)

1. Stage 21: July 26, 2009: Top 100 | All results | Search
2. Stage 20: July 25, 2009: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 19: July 24, 2009: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 18: July 23, 2009: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 17: July 22, 2009: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with stage 1: July 04, 2009

Stage winners | Hall of Fame 2009 | All-Time Hall of Fame

Overall Rankings

Winner: Thomas Storrødvann (Norway)

1. Stage 21: July 26, 2009: Top 100 | All results | Search
2. Stage 20: July 25, 2009: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 19: July 24, 2009: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 18: July 23, 2009: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 17: July 22, 2009: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with stage 3: July 06, 2009: Top 100 | All results | Search

External links

If you know interesting sites that are relevant for the Tour de France you can mail the urls to erikt(at)xs4all.nl

Major Cycling Sites

• Cyclingnews.com
• Tdfblog.com
• Cycling Union UCI
• Johannes Homan's CycleBase (in Dutch)

Other important cycling races

• Giro d'Italia (May 9 - May 31) Cyclingnews.com
• Dauphiné Libéré (June 7 - June 14): official site.
• Tour de Suisse (June 13 - June 21): official site.
• Vuelta Ciclista a España (August 29 - September 20): official site.
• World Championships (September 27, Mendrisio, Switzerland): official site.

Tour de France information

• Official Tour de France site.
• Cyclingnews.com
• The NOS Teletekst Tour de France pages (in Dutch):
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  851 Live stage coverage: graphics | text
  852 Stage report: graphics | text
  853 Results intermediate sprints: graphics | text
  854 Results climbs: graphics | text
  855 Stage results: graphics | text
  856 Overall rankings (yellow jersey): graphics | text
  857 Climber rankings (polka dot jersey): graphics | text
  858 Sprinter rankings (green jersey): graphics | text
  859 Young rider rankings (white jersey): graphics | text
  860 Team rankings: graphics | text
  861 Summary Tour de France 2009: graphics | text
  862 Tomorrow's stage: graphics | text
  863 News: graphics | text
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  867 Rider list (numbers 1-19): graphics | text
  868 Rider list (21-39): graphics | text
  869 Rider list (41-59): graphics | text
  870 Rider list (61-79): graphics | text
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  872 Rider list (101-119): graphics | text
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• Tour de France 2008 pages by TdfBlog, Steephill, Eurosport, BBC, Yahoo!, ARD (in German), NOS (in Dutch), Pagina.nl (in Dutch), VeloNews and Wikipedia.

Other Cycling Games in 2008

• BikeDork Game by Owen Sicily.
• Cobblestone Fantasy League
• Tour Manager by DR (in Danish).
• Fantasy Tour de France by George Chapman.
• Moos TourPoel by Moos Maasbree (in Dutch).
• Oudste Goorsche Tourtoto by Henk Kappert, Gerben Kappert, Bas Pool and Peter Visser (in Dutch).
• RaboAD RondeMaster By Rabobank and AD (in Dutch).
• SuperTour.nl by Frank (in Dutch).
• TDF Pool by Kris Westwood.
• Tour de France Competitie by Marc Toonen (in Dutch).
• Tour de France Spiel by Holger Schligtenhorst (in German).
• Tourspel Texel by Ruud van de Wetering (in Dutch).

More links to fantasy cycling games can be found at Startpagina.nl and A1 Boulevard (under Tourpools and Tour toto's).

People that want to organize their own game and need software can try the Tour software of Rene Zuidgeest (for Windows, in Dutch).