Internet Tour de France Game 2002

The Internet Tour de France Game 2002 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 2002. 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 1143 teams (big) | Search
• Cyclist list Tour de France 2002
• Dropouts Tour de France 2002
• The most favorite cyclists of the game participants
• Optimal team for the game in 2002

The Tour 2002 has started on Saturday July 6 in Luxembourg and has finished on Sunday July 28 in Paris. It contained a prologue, a team time trail, two individual time trials, 17 regular stages and two rest days. Information about this event can be obtained from the official site.

Stage results

Winner stage 20: Rien Post (The Netherlands)

1. Stage 20: July 28, 2002: Top 100 | All results | Search | Final remarks
2. Stage 19: July 27, 2002: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 18: July 26, 2002: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 17: July 25, 2002: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 16: July 24, 2002: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with the prologue: July 6, 2002

Stage winners | Hall of Fame 2002 | All Time Hall of Fame

Overall Rankings

Winner: Martin Smits (The Netherlands)

1. Stage 20: July 28, 2002: Top 100 | All results | Search
2. Stage 19: July 27, 2002: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 18: July 26, 2002: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 17: July 25, 2002: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 16: July 24, 2002: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with stage 2: July 8, 2002: 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 11 - June 2): Gazetta and Cyclingnews.com
• Grand Prix du Midi Libre (May 22 - May 26): official site.
• Dauphiné Libéré (June 9 - June 16): official site.
• Tour de Suisse (June 18 - June 27): official site.
• Vuelta Ciclista a España (September 7 - September 29): official site
• World Championships (October 13, Belgium): 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.
  General cycling pages (in Dutch): 636 | 637
• Official Tour de France site.
• Live stage coverage by Cyclingnews.com, official site, and NOS Teletekst (in Dutch).
• Tour de France pages by Cyclingnews.com, VeloNews (2001), BBC (2001), CNN, Radsport-news.com (in German), Sport24.com (in French), Cycling4all.com.
• The Tour de France 2001 was broadcasted in the USA by OLN TV.

Other Cycling Games

• Cyclegame by Gizmo Internet.
• CyclingGames.com by InterFour B.V. (in Dutch).
• CycloSim by Peter Visser (in Dutch).
• DeBoNa Toorpool 2002 by Pieter van der Lucht (in Dutch).
• Fantasy Cycling by Performance Bicycle.
• Fantasy Tour de France by George Chapman.
• FCWF 2002 by Andrea Mandiroli (in Italian).
• Israel's First TdF Fantasy Game by Ofanaim magazine (in Hebrew).
• Professional Cycling Game by Giuseppe Lippi.
• sToerSpel 2002 by Armin Meulenbelt (in Dutch).
• Tour-toto '02 by Hans Splinter (in Dutch).
• TourToto 2002 by Anonymous.
• Virtual Games Wielerspel by Sander Kaspers (in Dutch).
• Wielersite Tour-spel 2002 by Teleware (in Dutch).
• Win your Record by Campagnolo.

More links to fantasy cycling games can be found at A1 Boulevard (under Tourtoto's).

People that want to organise their own game and need software can try the Tour software of Rene Zuidgeest (for Windows, in Dutch) or DruSoft (for Windows, in Dutch).