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The Internet Tour de France Game 1998 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 1998. 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
• Participants: Names only | All 814 teams (very large) | Search
• Cyclist list Tour de France 1998
• The most favourite cyclists of the game participants
• Dropouts Tour de France 1998
• Optimal team for the game in 1998

The Tour de France 1998 has started on Saturday July 11 in Dublin, Ireland and it finished on Sunday August 2 in Paris, France. It has contained a prologue and 21 stages. The official Tour de France site in France supplies a page with the schedule of the Tour de France 1998.

Stage results

Winner stage 21: Lutz Frommberger (Germany)

1. Stage 21: August 2, 1998: Top 100 | All results | Search
2. Stage 20: August 1, 1998: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 19: July 31, 1998: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 18: July 30, 1998: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 17: July 29, 1998

This overview starts with the results of the prologue: July 11, 1998

Stage winners | Hall of Fame 1998 | All Time Hall of Fame

Overall Rankings

Winner: Tako Molanus (The Netherlands)

1. After stage 21: August 2, 1998: Top 100 | All results | Search
2. After stage 20: August 1, 1998: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. After stage 19: July 31, 1998: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. After stage 18: July 30, 1998: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. After stage 16: July 28, 1998: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with the rankings after stage 2: July 13, 1998: Top 100 | All results

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

• Bill Mitchell's Cycle Racing Results and News Service
• Bertil Ödling's International Pro Cycling
• Cycling Union UCI
• Johannes Homan's CycleBase
• Michiel van Loon's Fietspad Langs de Digitale Snelweg (in Dutch)

Other important cycling races

• Giro d'Italia: in English and Italian (May 16 - June 7)
• Grand Prix Midi Libre (May 19 - May 24)
• Dauphiné Libéré (June 7 - June 14)
• Tour de Suisse: in German (June 16 - June 25)
• Vuelta Ciclista a España (September 5 - September 27):
  • Official website with game.
  • VeloNews's Vuelta a España page.
  • Fantasy Vuelta a España by Søren Rasmussen.
  • CNNSI's Cycling page.
  • Rabobank Cycling pages (in Dutch).
  • NOS Teletekst (in Dutch):
    race report | stage result | overall rankings
• World Championships (October 11, Valkenburg, The Netherlands)

Tour de France information

During the last four years NOS Teletekst has been the organization that provides the fastest online results of the Tour de France stages. Their pages are in Dutch but still interesting even if you do not speak the language. Please note that due to the popularity of their Tour de France pages the NOS Teletekst web server might be difficult to access between 13:00 and 16:00 GMT (15:00 and 18:00 EMT summertime). Check out Yahoo! if you are looking for up-to-date live stage reports in English.

• The NOS Teletekst Tour de France pages are currently unavailable.
• Official Tour de France site with USA mirror. Complete stage results: stage 21
• Yahoo!'s Tour de France page. Live stage coverage: stage 21.
• VeloCity's Tour de France 1998 page. Live stage coverage: stage 21.
• VeloNews's Tour de France 1998 page. Live stage coverage: stage 21
• Rabobank Cycling pages (in Dutch).
• CNNSI's Tour de France 1998 page.
• Bicycling Magazine's Tour de France 1998 page with ABC and ESPN tv schedules.
• Tour de France pages by Bill Mitchell, Bob Schwartz, Eddy van der Mark, Kim Plesner Frederiksen (in Danish) and Roland Holm.
• EuroSport Live TV and other Online TV stations which might cover the Tour de France (in German).

Other Tour de France Games

• Cyber Tour de Kans by Olaf Oudendijk (in Dutch).
• CyberTour de France by Martin van Ekelenburg.
• Fantasy Cycle Races (Giro/Tour/Vuelta) by Søren Rasmussen.
• Fantasy Cycling Game by Cannondale.
• Fantasy Cycling League by Roger Hughes (includes more than the Tour de France).
• Fantasy Tour de France 1998 by George Chapman
• JimBob's 1998 Fantasy Tour de France by Mike Martin.
• Pressofoon Tourspel (in Dutch).
• Rabobank Tour Spel by Rabobank (in Dutch).
• Tour d'Apina 1998 by Roel Mertens.
• Tour de France 1998 by Paul en Corry Jacobs (game cancelled).
• Tour de France Spel 1998 by Ed van der Sande (in Dutch).
• Tour de France Toto by Geert (in Dutch).
• Tour Manager by Mark Workel of Sportdreams.
• Tour-spel by Teleware (in Dutch).
• Tour-toto Duiven '98 by Chris Thyssen and Remco de Haan (in Dutch).
• Tourspel 1998 by Tom Kuipers (in Dutch).
• Xtreme Fantasy Tour de France by Christian Tregillis.

People that want to organize their own game and need software can check out the freeware software by Edwin Kuipers and René van Geest (in Dutch).