Internet Tour de France Game 2003

The Internet Tour de France Game 2003 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 2003. 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: All 1352 teams (big) | Search
• Cyclist list Tour de France 2003
• Dropouts Tour de France 2003
• The most favorite cyclists of the game participants
• Optimal team for the game in 2003

The Tour 2003 has started on Saturday July 5 in Paris and finished on Sunday July 27 in the same city. The race 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: Xiaojun Creemers (The Netherlands)

1. Stage 20: July 27, 2003: Top 100 | All results | Search | Final remarks
2. Stage 19: July 26, 2003: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 18: July 25, 2003: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 17: July 24, 2003: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 16: July 23, 2003: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with the prologue: July 5, 2003

Stage winners | Hall of Fame 2003 | All Time Hall of Fame

Overall Rankings

Winner: Belinda Ward (USA)

1. Stage 20: July 27, 2003: Top 100 | All results | Search
2. Stage 19: July 26, 2003: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 18: July 25, 2003: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 17: July 24, 2003: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 16: July 23, 2003: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with stage 2: July 7, 2003: 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
• Cycling Union UCI
• Johannes Homan's CycleBase (in Dutch)
• Michiel van Loon's Fietspad Langs de Digitale Snelweg (in Dutch)

Other important cycling races

• Giro d'Italia (May 10 - June 1): Gazetta and Cyclingnews.com
• Dauphiné Libéré (June 8 - June 15): official site.
• Tour de Suisse (June 16 - June 25): official site.
• Vuelta Ciclista a España (September 6 - September 28): official site
• World Championships (October 12, Hamilton, Canada): official site.

Tour de France information

• Official Tour de France site
  Live stage coverage: stage 20
  Full stage results: stage 20
• Cyclingnews.com
  Live stage coverage: stage 20
  Full stage results: stage 20
• The NOS Teletekst Tour de France pages are not available anymore.
• Tour de France pages by ARD (in German), BBC, CNN, ESPN, Eurosport, NOS (in Dutch), Pagina.nl (in Dutch) Roadcycling.com, VeloNews and Yahoo!,

Other Cycling Games

• CycloSim by Peter Visser (in Dutch).
• Fantasy Cycling by Performance Bicycle.
• Fantasy Cyclingnews.com by Cyclingnews.com.
• Fantasy Tour de France by George Chapman.
• Moos TourPoel by Moos Maasbree (in Dutch).
• RaboAD RondeMaster By Rabobank and AD (in Dutch).
• sToerSpel 2003 by Armin Meulenbelt (in Dutch).
• Tour de France Competitie 2003 by Marc Toonen (in Dutch).
• TourGiroVuelta.com by Ed van der Sande and Bart Peters (in Dutch)
• Tourspel by Anonymous (in Dutch).
• Tourspel Texel by Ruud van de Wetering (in Dutch).
• Tourtoto 2003 by Hans Splinter (in Dutch).
• TourToto 2003 by Marc Rikhof (in Dutch).
• Wielerpools.com by Anonymous (in Dutch).
• Virtual Games Wielerspel by Sander Kaspers (in Dutch).

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

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