Internet Tour de France Game 2008

The Internet Tour de France Game 2008 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 2008. 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 had collected the largest number of points after the Tour de France was the winner of this game.

• News about the game
• Rules of the game
• History of the Internet TdF Game
• Game participants: All 448 teams (big) | Search
• Cyclist list Tour de France 2008
• Dropouts Tour de France 2008
• The most favorite cyclists of the game participants
• Stage top ten positions in 2004-2008
• Optimal team for the game in 2008

The Tour 2008 started on Saturday July 5 in Brest and finished on Sunday July 27 in Paris. The race contained two individual time trials, 19 regular stages and two rest days. Information about this event can be obtained from the official site.

Stage results

Winner stage 21: Evert Molanus (The Netherlands)

1. Stage 21: July 27, 2008: Top 100 | All results | Search
2. Stage 20: July 26, 2008: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 19: July 25, 2008: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 18: July 24, 2008: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 17: July 23, 2008: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with Stage 1: July 5, 2008

Stage winners | Hall of Fame 2008 | All-Time Hall of Fame

Overall Rankings

Winner: Tom Denters (The Netherlands)

1. Stage 21: July 27, 2008: Top 100 | All results | Search
2. Stage 20: July 26, 2008: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 19: July 25, 2008: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 18: July 24, 2008: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 17: July 23, 2008: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with stage 3: July 7, 2008: 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

Other important cycling races

• Giro d'Italia (May 10 - June 1) Cyclingnews.com
• Dauphiné Libéré (June 8 - June 5): official site.
• Tour de Suisse (June 14 - June 22): official site.
• Vuelta Ciclista a España (August 30 - September 21): official site.
• World Championships (September 28, Stuttgart, Germany): official site.

Tour de France information

• Official Tour de France site.
• Cyclingnews.com
• The NOS Teletekst Tour de France pages (in Dutch) are not available anymore
• Live video coverage: RojaDirecta.org (search for tour)
• Tour de France pages by TdfBlog, Steephill, Eurosport, BBC, Yahoo!, ARD (in German), NOS (in Dutch), Pagina.nl (in Dutch), VeloNews and Wikipedia.

Other Cycling Games

• 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).