An optimal team for the Internet Tour de France Game 1997 is a team that would have achieved the highest possible number of points in this edition of the game. There are different teams that achieve the same score so the team presented here is not unique. I cannot guarantee that the team shown here cannot be improved so if you are able to construct a team that achieves more points you can send it to erikt@stp.ling.uu.se . Please include the score of your team.
The team presented here would have achieved 860 points (winner Kees Winder achieved 749 points).
Name | Stage results in top ten
1. E. Zabel | 7x: 2 1* 3 1* 1* 5 2 2. J. Ullrich | 8x: 8 4 1 1 2* 2* 3 2* 3. R. Virenque | 8x: 2 3* 2 3* 1 2 3* 9 4. F. Casagrande | 7x: 9 4* 6 4* 7 5 6 5. B. Riis | 7x: 3 8 5* 3 5* 5* 8 6. L. Dufaux | 7x: 9 6* 6* 4 5 7 8 7. A. Olano | 7x: 6 10 9 4 9 7* 1 8. F. Moncassin | 6x: 4 2 5 8* 4 4 9. M. Pantani | 7x: 3 2 5 1 6 1 9* 10. J. Blijlevens | 6x: 3 5 1 3 3 4 11. R. McEwen | 5x: 9 9 6 4 6 12. N. Minali | 4x: 1 4 2 1 13. M. Traversoni | 4x: 3 10 6 1 14. B. Julich | 4x: 6 7 3 4 15. S. Utchakov | 4x: 5 3 8 9
A cyclist gets (16-his place) points if he finishes within the top 10 of a stage. Bonus points are awarded if the place of the cyclist in the team is equal to his place in a stage (3 points for a top 3 cyclist and 2 for the other top 10 cyclists). Behind each cyclist you will find the number of times that he finished in the top-10 and the rankings he has achieved. If the cyclist has finished at the same place as his place in the list, a star is appended to the place.
Here is the score sheet of the team:
tot 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
1. E. Zabel 114 15 18 15 . . 18 18 . . 15 . . . . . . . . . 15
2. J. Ullrich 121 . 14 . . . . . 14 14 . 14 17 17 14 . . . . 17 .
3. R. Virenque 113 . . . . . . . 13 16 . 13 16 13 13 16 . . . 13 .
4. F. Casagrande 88 . . . . . . . 12 14 . 12 14 12 12 12 . . . . .
5. B. Riis 83 . 11 . . . . . 11 13 . 11 13 13 11 . . . . . .
6. L. Dufaux 74 . 10 . . . . . 12 12 . . . 10 . 10 . 10 . 10 .
7. A. Olano 65 . 9 . . . . . 9 9 . 9 . 9 . 11 . . . 9 .
8. F. Moncassin 50 8 . 8 . 8 10 8 . . 8 . . . . . . . . . .
9. M. Pantani 51 . . . . . . . 7 7 . 7 7 7 7 9 . . . . .
10. J. Blijlevens 36 6 . 6 . 6 6 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
11. R. McEwen 25 5 . 5 . 5 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
12. N. Minali 16 . . 4 . 4 . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
13. M. Traversoni 12 . . . . 3 3 . . . 3 . . . . . . . 3 . .
14. B. Julich 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . 2 2 . 2 .
15. S. Utchakov 4 1 . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . 1 . 1 . .
Points: 860 35 62 38 0 26 42 36 78 85 27 66 67 81 59 58 3 12 4 51 30
This team would have won 2 stages in the game: stages 10 and 16.
The other cyclists that finished in the top 10 of a stage are:
Name | Stage results in top ten
. M. Strazzer | 4x: 10 9 5 8 . J. Jimenez Sastreo | 4x: 5 7 8 9 . F. Escartin | 4x: 7 8 3 7 . F. Vandenbroucke | 3x: 2 7 2 . F. Baldato | 3x: 6 7 7 . F. Simon | 3x: 10 6 2 . H. Vogels | 3x: 8 7 3 . E. Dekker | 3x: 5 7 5 . B. Zberg | 3x: 9 6 4 . A. Baffi | 3x: 6 10 9 . U. Bolts | 2x: 7 8 . L. Brochard | 2x: 1 7 . O. Camenzind | 2x: 10 2 . L. Jalabert | 2x: 4 10 . N. Loda | 2x: 10 8 . P. Gaumont | 2x: 3 9 . N. Jalabert | 2x: 9 9 . C. Mengin | 2x: 1 10 . S. O'Grady | 2x: 8 2 . L. Roux | 2x: 4 4 . M. Cipollini | 2x: 1 4 . L. Aus | 2x: 5 7 . J. Kirsipuu | 2x: 7 2 . G. Pierobon | 2x: 10 4 . L. Madouas | 2x: 9 10 . R. Conti | 2x: 8 10 . V. Ekimov | 2x: 3 5 . J. Robin | 2x: 7 6 . T. Bourguignon | 2x: 6 6 . C. Henn | 1x: 4 . P. Herve | 1x: 2 . C. Moreau | 1x: 6 . D. Rous | 1x: 1 . N. Stephens | 1x: 1 . Z. Jaskula | 1x: 8 . D. Nardello | 1x: 8 . C. Finco | 1x: 2 . F. Andreu | 1x: 8 . L. Desbiens | 1x: 1 . D. Nazon | 1x: 8 . D. Rebellin | 1x: 5 . M. Zen | 1x: 9 . C. Vasseur | 1x: 1 . B. Hamburger | 1x: 10 . S. Knaven | 1x: 8 . B. Voskamp | 1x: 10 . G. Fagnini | 1x: 6 . M. Boogerd | 1x: 10 . R. Sorensen | 1x: 10 . A. Elli | 1x: 10 . P. Chanteur | 1x: 10 . F. Gougot | 1x: 7 . A. Kasputis | 1x: 10 . M. Saligari | 1x: 3 . M. Beltran | 1x: 9 . A. Casero Moreno | 1x: 5 . O. Rodrigues | 1x: 10 . D. Abdoesjaparov | 1x: 2 . P. Farazijn | 1x: 9 . A. Tchmile | 1x: 7 . F. Cabello Luque | 1x: 3 . J. Pascual Rodriguez| 1x: 6 . M. Artunghi | 1x: 4 . G. Hincapie | 1x: 5 . P. Meinert-Nielsen | 1x: 5 . S. Cueff | 1x: 8 . C. Lamour | 1x: 7