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The Internet Tour de France Game 1999 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 1999. 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 818 teams (big) | Search
• Cyclist list Tour de France 1999
• The favorite cyclists of the game participants
• Dropouts Tour de France 1999
• Optimal team for the game in 1999

The Tour de France 1999 has started on Saturday July 3 in Le Puy du Fou and finished on Sunday July 25 in Paris. It contained a prologue and 20 stages.

Stage results

Winner stage 20: Wilco Vertegaal (The Netherlands)

1. Stage 20: July 25, 1999: Top 100 | All results | Search | Final Remarks
2. Stage 19: July 24, 1999: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 18: July 23, 1999: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 17: July 22, 1999: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 16: July 21, 1999: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with the results of the prologue: July 03, 1999.

Stage winners | Hall of Fame 1999 | All Time Hall of Fame

Overall Rankings

Winner: Michael Botzet (Germany)

1. Stage 20: July 25, 1999: Top 100 | All results | Search
2. Stage 19: July 24, 1999: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 18: July 23, 1999: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 17: July 22, 1999: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 16: July 21, 1999: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with stage 2: July 05, 1999: 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
• 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 15 - June 6):
  Official Giro page, Gazetta (Italian), Cycling 4 All and Infosport (Danish).
  Fantasy games: Søren Rasmussen and Lars Mikkelsen.
• Grand Prix du Midi Libre: in English (May 18 - May 23)
• Dauphiné Libéré: official site (June 6 - June 13)
• Tour de Suisse: official site and in German (June 15 - June 24)
• Vuelta Ciclista a España: in English and in Spanish (September 4 - September 26)
  More: Bill Mitchell. Fantasy game: Søren Rasmussen.
• World Championships: official site (October 10, Italy)

Tour de France information

During the last five years NOS Teletekst has been the organization that provided 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.

• The NOS Teletekst Tour de France pages are currently unavailable.
• Official Tour de France site with USA mirror.
• Yahoo!'s Tour de France pages: news and live stage coverage.
• NOS's Tour de France 1999 page (in Dutch).
• VeloCity's Tour'99 Live.
• VeloNews's Tour de France 1999 page.
• CNNSI's Tour de France 1999 page.
• Rabobank's Tour de France 1999 page with cycling news (in Dutch).
• Bicycling Magazine's Tour de France 1999 page.
• Radsport-news.com's Tour de France 1999 page (in German).
• France 2 Tour de France 1999 page (in French).
• Tour de France pages by Bill Mitchell, Eddy van der Mark, Henk Huizinga 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 Tour de France Games

• Computer Trade Center Tour Poule by CTC (in Dutch).
• CyberTour de France by Martin van Ekelenburg.
• Fantasy Cycle Races (Giro/Tour/Vuelta) by Søren Rasmussen.
• Fantasy Tour de France 1999 by George Chapman.
• Internet Tour Spel by Sportgames (in Dutch).
• Lotto TourTip by Lotto (in Dutch).
• Tour de France Spel TFS'99 by Ronnie Hendriks (in Dutch).
• Tour de France Spel 1999 by Ed van der Sande (in Dutch).
• Tour de France Spel 1999 V.V. Noorbeek by Edmond Huntjens (in Dutch).
• Tour Manager by Mark Workel of Sportdreams.
• Tourpool by Sybrand Bonsma.
• Tourspel by Pressofoon Nieuwe Media
• Tourspel 1999 by Tom Kuipers (in Dutch).
• VeloNews Contest by VeloNews.
• Wieler Revue's Tour de France-spel 1999 by Wielerrevue (in Dutch).
• Wielersite Tour-spel by Teleware (in Dutch).
• World Cycling Competition by Giuseppe Lippi.
• Ziber Porra Tour 99 by Aitor Casado.
• 1st Fantasy Tour de France 1999 by Peter Trkman.
• 1999 Fantasy Cycling World Cup by Christian Tregillis.

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