Internet Tour de France Game 2000

The Internet Tour de France Game 2000 is a free competition organized on Internet in which participants attempt to predict the results of the stages of the cycling race Tour de France 2000. Each participant selects a team of 15 cyclists and the team members will 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 will be the winner of this game.

• Description of the game
• History of the Internet TdF Game
• Game participants: Names only | All 827 teams (big) | Search
• Cyclist list Tour de France 2000
• The most favorite cyclists of the game participants
• Dropouts Tour de France 2000
• Optimal team for the game in 2000

The Tour 2000 has started on Saturday July 1 in Futuroscope and finished on Sunday July 23 in Paris. It contained a team time trail, two individual time trials, 18 regular stages and two rest days. The official Tour site supplies a stage overview.

Stage results

Winner stage 21: Zulpicher (Ireland)

1. Stage 21: July 23, 2000: Top 100 | All results | Search
2. Stage 20: July 22, 2000: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 19: July 21, 2000: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 18: July 20, 2000: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 17: July 19, 2000: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with Stage 1: July 1, 2000.

Stage winners | Hall of Fame 2000 | All Time Hall of Fame

Overall Rankings

Winner: E. Gaas (The Netherlands)

1. Stage 21: July 23, 2000: Top 100 | All results | Search
2. Stage 20: July 22, 2000: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 19: July 21, 2000: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 18: July 20, 2000: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 17: July 19, 2000: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with stage 3: July 3, 2000: 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@stp.ling.uu.se

Major Cycling Sites

• Cyclingnews.com
• Bertil Ödling's International Pro Cycling
• CNNSI's cycling page.
• Cycling Union UCI
• Johannes Homan's CycleBase with the European Pro Cycling Network (EPCN)
• Michiel van Loon's Fietspad Langs de Digitale Snelweg (in Dutch)

Other important cycling races

• Giro d'Italia (May 13 - June 4): official site.
• Grand Prix du Midi Libre (May 16 - May 21).
• Dauphiné Libéré (June 4 - June 11).
• Tour de Suisse (June 13 - June 22): official site.
• Vuelta Ciclista a España (August 26 - September 17): official site.
  Fantasy games: Søren Rasmussen, Peter Trkman, Performance Bicycle, Cyclinggames.com and Aitor Casado.
• Olympic Games (September 27): official site.
• World Championships (October 15, France): official site and UCI.

Tour de France information

From 1994 to 1999, NOS Teletekst has been the organization that provided the fastest online results of the Tour de France stages. Their pages are in Dutch but interesting even if you do not speak the language.

• The NOS Teletekst Tour de France pages are not available.
• Official Tour de France site with complete race results.
• VeloNews's Tour de France 2000 page.
• Tour de France 2000 pages by the BBC, CNNSI, Cyclingnews.com, France 2 (in French), NOS (in Dutch), Rabobank (in Dutch), Radsport-news.com (in German) and Roland Holm.
• EuroSport Live TV and other Online TV stations which might cover the Tour de France (in German). In you prefer live radio then try to find a suitable station via LifeFM.com.

Other Cycling Games

• 2000 Fantasy Cycling World Cup by Christian Tregillis.
• 2nd Fantasy Tour de France 2000 by Peter Trkman.
• DeBoNa Toorpool 2000 by Pieter van der Lucht (in Dutch).
• Fantasy Cycle Races (Giro/Tour/Vuelta) by Søren Rasmussen.
• Fantasy Cycling by Performance Bicycle.
• Fantasy Cycling 2000 by Andrea Mandiroli (in Italian).
• Fantasy Tour de France by George Chapman.
• Maillot Jaune by CyclingFanatic.com.
• Tour de France 2000 by TourToto Manager.
• Tour de France Spel 2000 V.V. Noorbeek by Edmond Huntjens (in Dutch).
• Tour de France Spel by Ed van der Sande (in Dutch).
• Tour de Gok 2000 by Ad van Rijckevorsel and Hans van Iterson (in Dutch).
• Tour Manager by Mark Workel of Sportdreams.
• Tourpool 2000 by Marcel Schmitz and Mark Thomassen.
• Tourspel by Tour Speciaal (in Dutch).
• Tourspel 2000 by Tom Kuipers (in Dutch).
• TourToto 2000 by Anonymous (in Dutch).
• TourWinSpel by InterFour B.V. (in Dutch).
• VeloNews Give-Away by VeloNews.
• Virtual Games Wielerspel by Sander Kaspers (in Dutch).
• Wieler Revue's Tour de France-spel 2000 by Wielerrevue (in Dutch).
• Wielersite Tour-spel 2000 by Teleware (in Dutch).
• Win your Record by Campagnolo.
• World Cycling Competition 2000 by Giuseppe Lippi.
• Ziber Porra 2000 by Aitor Casado.

More links to fantasy cycling games can be found at DMOZ.

People that want to organise their own game and need software can try the Tour software of DruSoft (for Windows, in Dutch), Cone (for Windows, in Dutch) and ComputerIdee (1999, for Excel97, in Dutch). Alternatively you could use the opportunity provided by Sportdreams to organize your game as a subleague of theirs.