Internet Tour de France Game 2006

The Internet Tour de France Game 2006 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 2006. 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 647 teams (big) | Search
• Cyclist list Tour de France 2006
• Dropouts Tour de France 2006
• The most favorite cyclists of the game participants
• Optimal team for the game in 2006

The Tour 2006 started on Saturday July 1 in Strasbourg, France and has finished on Sunday July 23 in Paris. The race contained a prologue, two individual time trials, 18 regular stages and two rest days. Information about this event can be obtained from the official site.

Stage results

Winner stage 20: Karolina Tobiasson (Sweden)

1. Stage 20: July 23, 2006: Top 100 | All results | Search | Final remarks
2. Stage 19: July 22, 2006: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 18: July 21, 2006: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 17: July 20, 2006: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 16: July 19, 2006: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with Prologue: July 1, 2006

Stage winners | Hall of Fame 2006 | All-Time Hall of Fame

Overall Rankings

Winner: Arthur Denneman (The Netherlands)

1. Stage 20: July 23, 2006: Top 100 | All results | Search
2. Stage 19: July 22, 2006: Top 100 | All results | Search
3. Stage 18: July 21, 2006: Top 100 | All results | Search
4. Stage 17: July 20, 2006: Top 100 | All results | Search
5. Stage 16: July 19, 2006: Top 100 | All results | Search

This overview starts with Stage 2: July 3, 2006: 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@xs4all.nl

Major Cycling Sites

• Cyclingnews.com
• Tdfblog.com
• Cycling Union UCI

Other important cycling races

• Giro d'Italia (May 6 - May 28) Cyclingnews.com
• Dauphiné Libéré (June 4 - June 11): official site.
• Tour de Suisse (June 10 - June 18): official site.
• Vuelta Ciclista a España (August 26 - September 17): official site.
• World Championships (September 24, Salzburg, Austria): official site.

Tour de France information

• Official Tour de France site.
• Cyclingnews.com:
• The NOS Teletekst Tour de France pages (in Dutch) are currently not available.
• Tour de France pages by TdfBlog, Steephill (2006, rest 2005), Eurosport, BBC, ESPN, Yahoo!, Roadcycling.com, ARD (in German), NOS (in Dutch), Pagina.nl (in Dutch) and VeloNews.

Other Cycling Games

• BikeDork Game by Owen Sicily.
• Cobblestone Fantasy League
• Tour Manager by DR (in Danish).
• Fantasy Cyclingnews.com by Cyclingnews.com.
• Fantasy Cycling by Performance Bicycle.
• Fantasy Tour de France by George Chapman.
• Moos TourPoel by Moos Maasbree (in Dutch).
• Paidia Games Wielerspel by Sander Kaspers (in Dutch)
• RaboAD RondeMaster By Rabobank and AD (in Dutch).
• SuperTour.nl by Frank (in Dutch).
• Tour de France Competitie by Marc Toonen (in Dutch).
• Tourspel Texel by Ruud van de Wetering (in Dutch).
• Sportpools by Anonymous (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).