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I have also made pages that are not (yet) in the menu. Sometimes because I don't know where to put them, sometimes because I just did not do it, sometimes because they are not finished. Below is just a list of these pages, somewhat but not fully organized.

Classifications

Position in the general classification
For every stage of every Tour I show the complete general classification. Calculated by me, but checked as much as possible with other sources. Uncertainties are also shown.
Mountains classification rankings
All information of the mountains classification (passages, intermediate standings).
Intermediate sprints rankings
All information of the intermediate sprints (sprint results, intermediate rankings).
Points classification rankings
All information of the points classification (points earned, intermediate rankings).
Team classification rankings
All information of the points classification.
Young rider classification rankings
For every stage of every Tour the complete young rider classification, with the same uncertainties as the general classification. Plus some uncertainty on eligible participants in the years 1975 to 1982.
Combination classification rankings
For all stages of all Tours the complete combination classification, calculated. This calculations is very sensitive for errors in all other classifications, so this calculated ranking will have several mistakes.
Isolated rider rankings
Overviews of rankings of isolated riders.
Regional riders
Overview of the rankings of regional riders in 1928, 1929 and 1930. With some luck it also shows the rankings of riders from regional teams in other years.
Replacements in 1928
In 1928, teams could call in a replacement from the 12th stage for riders that had abandoned earlier. There was a special classification for these replacement riders.
Red lantern
The red lantern is a nickname for the last rider in the general classification. This position gives some extra publicity, and there have been riders who made this the goal of their Tour. Therefore a page showing the last rider in the general classification after every stage.
Special red lanterns
Did a rider ever won a stage while being last? Or did he lead a secondary classification? See it here.
Combativity classification
In some years, there was a classification for combativity, based on points earned during stages. This page has (incomplete) rankings for this classification.
Lottery sprints 1961
In 1961, there were lottery sprints. Every stage had a sprint at a secret location somewhere half-way in the stage, and there was an associated classification.
Best time trialist
In some years (1978 to ?), there was an official time trial classification, where only time trials were included. This page does the calculation.
Dominant team
Sometimes a team does not only have the stage winner, but also the second-placed rider, and sometimes also the third and beyond. See here in which stages this happened.
Fastest final lap
From 1903 to 1947, the Tour de France ended in a velodrome in Paris, and there was a prize for the rider who had the fastest final lap.
Winning after clemency
When a rider finishes too late, the jury can still allow him to continue. And sometimes such a rider won a stage afterwards! See here where this happened.
Longest solo (in length)
Who rode the longest solo? See here.
Most dominant solo (length x time)
Who rode the longest solo with the largest margin? See here.

Tour-specials

Tour of 1904
Newspaper articles about the Tour of 1904.
Tour of 1904
Disqualifications in the Tour of 1904.
Tour of 1975
Who was eligible for the young rider classification in 1975? There are two ways to determine this: by looking at the regulations and determining who complied, or by looking at the results. This page looks at the results and tries to determine who participated and who didn't.
Tour of 1996
The 1998 Tour was sometimes called the "Tour de dopage," but I believe it was much worse in 1996. That's why I created an overview of the top 12 and their doping history. The information is no longer up-to-date, but I'm keeping the page up.
Tour of 2010
The UCI had a list of suspected doping participants in the 2010 Tour. I briefly examined how reliable this list turned out to be.

General info

General information about a Tour
The overview of stages, participants, classification leaders and so on per year.
General information about a stage
Winners, classification leaders, jersey wearers, dates, and so on.
General information about a rider
As many information about a rider that I could get from my database. Participations, victories, jerseys received. Also from Giro and Vuelta.
General information about a mountain
As many information as I can get from my database. In which years it was categorized in the mountains classification, which category, and which rider reached the top first.
General information about a team
Information about a team: participations, team classifications won, stages won, best result in general classification, result in team classification. Also for Giro and Vuelta.
Results of a rider in a year
Per rider, per year, the results per stage and the evolution in the general classification.
Penalties
Many penalties have been given in the history of the Tour de France: time penalties, penalty points for the points classification and for the mountains classification. On this page an (incomplete) overview.
Push penalties
Many riders were penalized for pushed or being pushed. To show how the severity of the penalty evolved, here an overview with all penalties related to pushing known to me.
Time limits
Riders have to finish within a certain time to be allowed to continue. Here an attempt to make na overview of these limits, and how often the jury allowed a rider to continue regardless.
Stage winners that did not finish the next stage
It happened that a rider won a stage, and did not finish the next stage (or did not even start the next stage). Here a complette overview.
A large table showing the number of participants per country per year
The title should say everything there is to say.
Climb time trials
All individual time trials where points for the mountains classification could be earned.
Split stages
Overview of all split stages, and all days where two stages were held.
Stage lengths
Visual overview of stage length evolution. Also for Giro and Vuelta.

What if?

Finishes only
What if there was a rule that a stage win only counts if you finish the Tour? And if you don't, the victory is passed on to the next rider in the stage results? Well, you can see that on this page.
Alternative winners
The rules changed quite often. Who would have won if the 1928 rules had been used in 1985? Look that up here.
Mountains classification per team
What if there was a classification for teams, where points earned for the mountains classifications were added?
Points classification per team
What if there was a classification for teams, where points earned for the points classifications were added?
Handicap classification
In 1983, there was a handicap classification. My hypothesis was that this was calculated by giving every rider a "handicap", a time bonus equal to their losing margin in the 1982 Tour de France general classification, so that every rider had (in theory) an equal opportunity to win this classification in 1983. In this way, you can calculate a handicap classification for every year. Such a handicap classification is in use in different sports. But my hypothesis was wrong, because the calculated result did not agree to the real result.
Difference with previous Tour
The final classification of the hypothetical handicap classification of every post-War Tour, using my wrong hypothesis.

Rankings

Best rider in general classification
Who is the best rider in the general classification? A somewhat substantiated analysis.
Best and worst positions in the general classification during a career
Eddy Merckx's average position in the general classification (averaged over all stages he finished) is 1.70. You can look this up for each rider on this page.
Mountain classification unofficially won
Sometimes a rider has so many points in the mountain classification that they simply need to finish to win it. Here's an overview of when that happened.
Youngest rider with multiple stage wins
Some riders have won multiple stages at a young age.
Stage type versus mountain classification
Is there a correlation between the stage type (mountain, flat) and the number of mountains in the mountain classification in that stage? See here.
Multiple riders from a team are in the lead.
Sometimes a team holds not only the yellow jersey, but also the second-placed rider in the general classification. Here's an overview.
La course du Tour de France (1946)
In 1946, there was a "test" Tour. Information about it can be found here.
Multiple stage wins in consecutive participations
Which riders won many stages in consecutive participations (not necessarily consecutive years)?
Winning the Tour if a stage would be removed
Sometimes a single stage was decisive. Here an overview of what would happen if a single stage would not have counted for the general classification.
Average stage position per stage type
What is the average stage position for each rider per stage type?
Comparison of countries
Results of riders from a country in the Tour de France.
Leading both team classifications
Stages in which a team was leading the team classification and the team points classification, and would have been allowed to wear both color caps.
(Almost) winning two classifications
In some years, a rider won two classification. But in most years not. Who was closest to doing this, per year?
Stage result of the most combative rider
See here on which position the most combative rider of a stage ended that stage.
Stage position of most combative rider
Slightly different than the one above: how often did the most combative rider finish on the n-th place in a stage?
Total votes for the combativity classification
See here (the start of) an investigation for how many votes were casted each year for the combativity classification, in years that this was reported.
Best country
Which country was (relatively) the best?
Best rider (of all times, of all races)
An attempt to determine the best rider of all time, using mathematics and big data. The dataset is outdated and incomplete, so the result also. I was more interested in the method.
Maximum number of points in the points classification
Every year, the maximum number of points that can be earned in the points classification is different. What was it in every year, and what is the percentage of the maximum that the winner of the classification got?
Maximum number of points in the mountains classification
Every year, the maximum number of points that can be earned in the mountains classification is different. What was it in every year, and what is the percentage of the maximum that the winner of the classification got?
Team names
Overview of teams with team names in de Tour
Distribution prize money
Self calculated estimation of the distribution of prize money in the Tour
Participation experience in the Tour de France
A table with the Tour experience that Tour participants had every stage

Checks

Possible errors in the team classification(s)
Sometimes the leader of the team classification in my database does not correspond to the calculated leader. Here an overview.
Uncertainties in the general classification
The stage times (plus penalties/bonuses) added together should equal the total time. Sometimes this isn't correct, and this page indicates which errors still exist for each Tour. Where possible, I've indicated between which two stages the error should occur.
Missing intermediate results per stage
An overview of how many intermediate positions in the general classification I have uncertainty about, and how many positions in the top ten of the mountains and points classification I miss.
Lower time than higher-ranked rider
Sometimes the stage result is not ordered by time. For example because a rider fell or was set back. Or because of a mistake.
Checking combativity award
In years with votes for the combativity classification, the rider who received the most votes should be indicated as winner of the combativity classification. Here I do this check.
Overlap in errors
Checking a special type of mistakes in my database with overlapping errors in the general classification, or stages that don't exist.
Route completeness
I have added stage route information, and had made an overview of which stages need the most improvements. I stopped doing this, because it was a lot of work to fix minor details in routes. The page still exists, but the database is too large so I disabled it, until I take the time to implement a smarter method for reading from the database.

Doping

Doping-free stage winners and classification leaders
An overview of how many "clean" stage winners and classification leaders there were. "Clean" here means that they are not (yet) penalized and did not (yet) confess doping use.
Doping in teams
Which teams had the most doping users?
Highest "clean" result
The highest position in the general classification of all "clean" riders.
Clean stage winners
Who would have won the Tour stages if all doping users would be removed from all results?

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