Internet Tour de France Game 2012

The Internet Tour de France Game 2012 is a free competition organized on the Internet in which participants attempt to predict the results of the stages of the cycling race Tour de France 2012. Each participant selects a team of 15 cyclists and the team members earn points when they finish in the top 10 of a stage. The participant with the team that has collected the largest number of points after the Tour de France is the winner of this game.

• Description of the game
• History of the Internet TdF Game
• Game participants: All 423 teams (big) | Search
• Performances of game veterans
• Cyclist list Tour de France 2012
• The favorite cyclists of the game participants
• Dropouts Tour de France 2012
• Stage top ten positions in 2007-2011 (2008-2012)
• Optimal team for the game in 2012

The Tour 2012 has started on Saturday June 30 in Liège, Belgium and will finish on Sunday July 22 in Paris. The race contains a prologue, two individual time trials, 18 regular stages and two rest days. Information about this event can be obtained from the official site.

Stage results

Winner stage 20: Bert Otten (The Netherlands)

1. Stage 20: July 22, 2012: Top 100 | All results | Search | Final remarks
2. Stage 19: July 21, 2012: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 18: July 20, 2012: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 17: July 19, 2012: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 16: July 18, 2012: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with Prologue: June 30, 2012

Stage winners | Hall of Fame 2012 | All-Time Hall of Fame

Overall Rankings

Winner: Linda De Winter (Belgium)

1. Stage 20: July 22, 2012: Top 100 | All results | Search
2. Stage 19: July 21, 2012: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 18: July 20, 2012: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 17: July 19, 2012: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 16: July 18, 2012: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with Stage 2: July 2, 2012

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 (2012)

• Giro d'Italia (May 5 - May 27): offcial site
• Dauphiné Libéré (June 3 - June 10): official site
• Tour de Suisse (June 9 - June 17): official site
• Vuelta Ciclista a España (August 18 - September 9): official site
• World Championships (September 23, Limburg, The Netherlands): official site

Tour de France information

• Official Tour de France site
• Cyclingnews.com
• The NOS Teletekst Tour de France pages (in Dutch):
  850 Stage summary and live stage coverage:: graphics | text
  851 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 2012: graphics | text
  862 Tomorrow's stage: graphics | text
  863 News: graphics | text
  864 News: graphics | text
  865 News: graphics | text
  866 News: graphics | text
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  868 Rider list (1-19): graphics | text
  869 Rider list (21-39): graphics | text
  870 Rider list (41-59): graphics | text
  871 Rider list (61-79): graphics | text
  872 Rider list (81-99): graphics | text
  873 Rider list (101-119): graphics | text
  874 Rider list (121-139): graphics | text
  875 Rider list (141-159): graphics | text
  876 Rider list (161-179): graphics | text
  877 Rider list (181-199): graphics | text
  878 Rider list (201-219): graphics | text
• Tour de France 2010 pages by TdfBlog, Steephill, Eurosport, BBC, Yahoo!, ARD (in German), NOS (in Dutch), Pagina.nl (in Dutch), VeloNews and Wikipedia
• Live Tour video

Other Cycling Games in 2010

• Cobblestone Fantasy League
• 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)
• ProCycling Manager by ProCycling Manager
• RaboAD RondeMaster by Rabobank and AD (in Dutch)
• TeleSport Tourpoule by De Telegraaf (in Dutch)
• Tour de France Competitie by Marc Toonen (in Dutch)
• Tour Manager by DR (in Danish)
• 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).