Internet Tour de France Game 2001

The Internet Tour de France Game 2001 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 2001. 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: Names only | All 1101 teams (big) | Search
• Cyclist list Tour de France 2001
• Dropouts Tour de France 2001
• The most favorite cyclists of the game participants
• Optimal team for the game in 2001

The Tour 2001 has started on Saturday July 7 in Dunkerque, France and has finished on Sunday July 29 in Paris. It contained a prologue, a team time trail, two individual time trials, 17 regular stages and two rest days.

Stage results

Winner stage 20: Dick Blom (The Netherlands)

1. Stage 20: July 29, 2001: Top 100 | All results | Search | Final remarks
2. Stage 19: July 28, 2001: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 18: July 27, 2001: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 17: July 26, 2001: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 16: July 25, 2001: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with the prologue: July 7, 2001

Stage winners | Hall of Fame 2001 | All Time Hall of Fame

Overall Rankings

Winner: Reinier van Olderen (The Netherlands)

1. Stage 20: July 29, 2001: Top 100 | All results | Search
2. Stage 19: July 28, 2001: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 18: July 27, 2001: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 17: July 26, 2001: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 16: July 25, 2001: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with stage 2: July 9, 2001: 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
• 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 (May 19 - June 10): Gazetta and Cyclingnews.com
• Grand Prix du Midi Libre (May 22 - May 27): official site.
• Dauphiné Libéré (June 10 - June 17).
• Tour de Suisse (June 19 - June 28): official site.
• Vuelta Ciclista a España (September 8 - September 30): official site
  Fantasy games: CyclingGames.com and Performance Bicycle.
• World Championships (October 14, Portugal): 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 unavailable at this moment.
• Official Tour de France site.
• Tour de France 2001 pages by the Cyclingnews.com, VeloNews, BBC, CNNSI, Eddy van der Mark, France 2 (in French), Radsport-news.com (in German), Sport24.com (in French).
• EuroSport Live TV. In you prefer live radio then try to find a suitable station via LifeFM.com.
• The Tour de France 2001 was broadcasted in the USA by OLN TV.

Cycling Games in 2001

• 2001 Fantasy Cycling World Cup by Christian Tregillis.
• 3rd Fantasy Tour 2001 by Peter Trkman.
• Cyclegame by Gizmo Internet.
• Cyclingfan Pools by Frank Niemeijer.
• CyclingGames.com by InterFour B.V. (in Dutch).
• CycloSim by Peter Visser (in Dutch).
• DeBoNa Toorpool 2001 by Pieter van der Lucht (in Dutch).
• Fantasy Cycle Races (Giro/Tour/Vuelta) by Søren Rasmussen.
• Fantasy Cycling by Performance Bicycle.
• Fantasy Cycling League 2001 by Roger Hughes.
• Fantasy Cycling 2001 by Andrea Mandiroli (in Italian).
• Fantasy Tour de France by George Chapman.
• Pool de France by Theo Noy (in Dutch).
• Tour de France 2001 game by Peter Luxem.
• Tour de France Spel 2001 V.V. Noorbeek by Edmond Huntjens (in Dutch).
• Tourpool 2001 by Marcel Schmitz and Mark Thomassen.
• Tourspel 2001 by Tom Kuipers (in Dutch).
• TourToto 2001 by Anonymous.
• Virtual Games Wielerspel by Sander Kaspers (in Dutch).
• Wieler Revue's Tour de France-spel 2001 by Wielerrevue (in Dutch).
• Win your Record by Campagnolo.
• Wielersite Tour-spel 2001 by Teleware (in Dutch).
• World Cycling Competition by Giuseppe Lippi.

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 Rene Zuidgeest (for Windows, in Dutch), DruSoft (for Windows, in Dutch) and Cone (for Windows, in Dutch). Alternatively you could use the opportunity provided by Sportdreams to organize your game as a subleague of theirs.