This is the home page of a fantasy cycling blog for the GreenWightRed velogames minileague for the 2022 French Grand Tour (based on the Tour de France).
Updates
Week 3 (stages 16-21)
- Stage 21 Update: Paris La Défense Arena to Paris Champs-Élysées (flat) & final results
- Stage 20 Update: Lacapelle-Marival to Rocamadour (ITT)
- Stage 19 Update: Castelnau-Magnoac to Cahors (flat)
- Stage 18 Update: Lourdes to Hautacam (mountains)
- Stage 17 Update: Saint-Gaudens to Peyragudes (mountains)
- Stage 16 Update: Carcassonne to Foix (medium mountains)
Week 2 (Stages 10-15)
- Stage 15 Update: Rodez to Carcassonne (flat)
- Stage 14 Update: Saint-Étienne to Mende (medium mountains)
- Stage 13 Update: Le Bourg-d’Oisans to Saint-Étienne (flat)
- Stage 12 Update: Briançon to Alpe d’Huez (OMG more mountains!)
- Stage 11 Update: Albertville to Col du Granon (mountains) via the Col du Galibier
- Stage 10 Update: Morzine to Megève (more medium mountains)
Week 1 (Stages 4-9)
- Stage 9 Update: Aigle to Châtel (mountains) & Second Rest Day Review
- Stage 8 Update: Dole to Lausanne (“medium” mountains)
- Stage 7 Update: Tomblaine to La Super Planche des Belles Filles (mountain finish)
- Stage 6 Update: Binche to Longwy (hilly) plus Errata
- Stage 5 Update: Lille to Arenberg (cobbles!)
- Stage 4 Update: Dunkirk to Calais (hilly)
Opening Weekend (Stages 1-3)
- Stage 3 Update: Vejle to Sønderborg (flat)
- Stage 2 Update: Roskilde to Nyborg (flat)
- Stage 1 Update: Grand Départ – Copenhagen (ITT)
Preamble
- Sign on to the GreenWightRed minileague for the Tour de France (Countdown to Copenhagen)
Links
- Velogames (where to enter your team): Velogames Fantasy Cycling 2022 | Fantasy Cycling 2022 Season
- Startlist for Tour de France 2022 (procyclingstats.com) – a great resource for any pre-race research
- Tour de France news and race results | Cycling Weekly – an introduction to the race, TV coverage, review of the stages etc. etc.
- Official website of Tour de France 2022 (letour.fr)
History
A look back at the previous TDF minileagues which were variously called BlueWightandRed, Blue Wight Red, and latterly GreenWightRed to give continuity from the Giro:
- 2015 minileague league winners were Noël’s Acklam Angels (featuring Nibali, Porte, Quintana, Rolland, Greipel and Sagan)
- 2016 top team was Callan’s Dogma f8 (with Froome, Porte, Dan Martin and Peter Sagan)
- 2017 Ishbel Eade triumphed with the fabulous Cookie mermicorns rule (Froome, Uran and Quintana)
- 2018 … [does anyone have a record of this one? I can see that Philippa’s Vive la Rolling Resistance did well through Peter Sagan, Tom Dumoulin and Dan Martin, but I don’t have the minileague standings…]
- 2019 we raised our hats (and ice-creams) to Matt’s Chapeau el Cornetto in the Giro, but was that the year that Velogames got taken down by legal action from the TDF officious organisers?
- 2020 was overshadowed by the P-word, and a disrupted late Tour took place. Best of the minileague was Dale’s Année Annulée (with the Primoz, Tadej and Wout show)
- 2021 champion team was Philippa’s It’s All Downhill From Here (featuring Tadej Pogačar, Richard Carapaz and Mark Cavendish)
- 2022 …? It could be you!
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