Internet Tour de France Game 2004

The Internet Tour de France Game 2004 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 2004. 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 1201 teams (big) | Search
• Cyclist list Tour de France 2004
• Dropouts Tour de France 2004
• The most favorite cyclists of the game participants
• Optimal team for the game in 2004
• Stage top ten positions in 2000-2004

The Tour 2004 has started on Saturday July 3 in Liège, Belgium and has finished on Sunday July 25 in Paris. The race contained a prologue, a team time trail, two individual time trials (of which one in the mountains), 17 regular stages and two rest days. Information about this event can be obtained from the official site.

Stage results

Winner stage 20: Billy Corgan (Norway)

1. Stage 20: July 25, 2004: Top 100 | All results | Search | Final remarks
2. Stage 19: July 24, 2004: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 18: July 23, 2004: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 17: July 22, 2004: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 16: July 21, 2004: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with the prologue: July 3, 2004

Stage winners | Hall of Fame 2004 | All-Time Hall of Fame

Overall Rankings

Winner: Arthur Denneman (The Netherlands)

1. Stage 20: July 25, 2004: Top 100 | All results | Search
2. Stage 19: July 24, 2004: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 18: July 23, 2004: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 17: July 22, 2004: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 16: July 21, 2004: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with stage 2: July 5, 2004: 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
• Michiel van Loon's Fietspad Langs de Digitale Snelweg (in Dutch)

Other important cycling races

• Giro d'Italia (May 8 - May 30): Gazetta and Cyclingnews.com.
• Dauphiné Libéré (June 6 - June 13): official site.
• Tour de Suisse (June 12 - June 20): official site.
• Vuelta Ciclista a España (September 4 - September 26): official site.
• World Championships (October 3, Verona, Italy).

Tour de France information

• Official Tour de France site: live | stage results (stage 20)
• Cyclingnews.com: live | stage results (stage 20)
• The NOS Teletekst Tour de France pages (in Dutch):
  860 Stage summary: graphics | text
  861 Live stage coverage: graphics | text
  862 Stage report: graphics | text
  863 Results intermediate sprints: graphics | text
  864 Results climbs: graphics | text
  865 Stage results: graphics | text (stage 20)
  866 Overall rankings (yellow jersey): graphics | text
  867 Climber rankings (polka dot jersey): graphics | text
  868 Sprinter rankings (green jersey): graphics | text
  869 Young rider rankings (white jersey): graphics | text
  870 Team rankings: graphics | text
  871 Rider list: graphics | text
  872 News: graphics | text
  873 News: graphics | text
  874 News: graphics | text
  875 Tomorrow's stage: graphics | text
• Tour de France pages by Eurosport, BBC, CNN, ESPN, Yahoo!, Roadcycling.com, ARD (in German), NOS (in Dutch), Pagina.nl (in Dutch) and VeloNews.

Other Cycling Games

• DR Tour de France 2004 by DR (in Danish).
• Fantasy Cyclingnews.com by Cyclingnews.com.
• Fantasy Liège Toto: Tour 2004 by Velo-club du net.
• Fantasy Tour de France by George Chapman.
• Massasprint by Goedkoopbier.nl (in Dutch).
• Moos TourPoel by Moos Maasbree (in Dutch).
• Paidia Games Wielerspel by Sander Kaspers (in Dutch)
• RaboAD RondeMaster By Rabobank and AD (in Dutch).
• Tornax TourPool 2004 by soccer club Tornax Ruurlo (in Dutch).
• Tour de France Competitie 2004 by Marc Toonen (in Dutch).
• Tour de Mariënvelde by Anonymous (in Dutch).
• Tourmanager by Anonymous (in Dutch).
• Tourploeg by Tourploeg.nl (in Dutch).
• Tourpool Demarrage by CycloSim.
• Tour Spel 2004 by Tour de France Forum (in Dutch).
• Tourspel 2004 by Tour Special magazine (in Dutch).
• Tourspel 2004 by Anonymous (in Dutch).
• Tourspel Texel by Ruud van de Wetering (in Dutch).
• Wielerpool by Wielerpool.nl (in Dutch).
• Wielerpools.com by Anonymous (in Dutch).
• Wielrennen by Wedpagina.nl (in Dutch).

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

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