Entries have closed and amazingly we have 104 teams entered into the Fantasy Tour de France. So while we wait for the Prologue, here are some stats:

104 teams
36 teams with reserves - 2 of which have 3 reserves
69 teams chose Mark Cavendish
59 teams chose Alberto Contador
57 teams chose Fabian Cancellara
44 teams chose Andy Schleck
31 teams chose Cadel Evans
29 teams chose Roman Kreuziger
24 teams chose Tony Martin
20 teams chose Jens Voigt
19 teams chose Bradley Wiggins
18 teams chose Lance Armstrong
18 teams chose Oscar Freire
18 teams chose Robert Gesink
17 teams chose Sandy Casar
17 teams chose Thor Hushovd
16 teams chose Vincenzo Nibali
49 riders out of the 180 were not selected by any team
The most popular reserve, with 5 choices, is Stuart O'Grady
Kurt-Asle Arvesen and Dmitri Muravyev were both selected as reserves 4 times
2 teams picked riders entirely from 1 squad (One for Columbia, One for Milram)
Only 12 teams did not pick either Cavendish, Contador or Cancellara - 30 teams have all 3
Only 4 teams did not pick either of the 5 most popular riders - 21 teams included 4 of them.

Le Tour de France on PCM.Daily

The Tour de France is here once again and PCM.Daily is of course here to help you through it. We realise due to the new version of PCM there may be some newcommers to the site.

So here's what you can do during the Tour:
1) Disucss the Tour de France in daily threads | Click Here for the cycling forum
2) Watch to see how your team does in SportingNonsense's fantasy Tour de France
3) Take part in Tour de France online, the new cyanide TDF simulation. | Tour De France online
4) Discuss the stages on teamspeak as they happen | TeamSpeak Details
5) On an evening why not play pcm, see if a game is organised here | Online Gaming Forum
6) Keep up with cycling news with the "News in July" thread.
7) Fantasy betting, keep betting every day (and especially on Stage 1, you can win pcm09)
8) Vote in the poll on the side of this page, who do you think will win le tour.
9) Why not follow us on Twitter | Twitter

There you go, plenty to keep you going.

The Tour de France is the biggest cycling race of the earth and we hope to share it with you, and of course PCM.Daily keeps going year round.

Cyanide's other cycling game "Cycling Manager Online" has just launched

To play all you need is silverlight installed.Click here for that

And Click here for the game.

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Tour de France Online is a free-to-play online game, placing you in the role of a sport director.

Create your cycling team, train it and compete against players from all over the world on the official stages of the Tour de France 2009.

Live all the upbeats of the Tour and win the €10,000 offered to the winners of this first edition of the Tour de France Online.

Best of Luck to all!

Update (2nd July): Injury has ruled out Dan Martin of Garmin. Replacing him is:

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Update (1st July): Thomas Dekker is out of the tour so will need replacing if you selected him. Replacing him is:

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3 more teams have today officially announced their squads, so it is time for another rider update for the Fantasy Tour de France.

If you have selected any of the following riders, you will need to make a change to your team:

Cyril Gautier, Mathieu Sprick, Johan Tschopp (Bouygues Telecom), Xavier Zandio (Caisse d'Epargne), Remy di Gregorio (Francaise des Jeux).

There is also 1 more new rider, who you may wish to pick:

Bar any unexpected withdrawals or doping scandals, this means that there is only 1 spot left to be confirmed and that is of the 9th Quick Step rider. It is either going to be Tom Boonen or Allan Davis and it is not clear when the decision will be made over whether Boonen will be able to ride the Tour or not.

Dont forget that to enter you need to post a comment on the original Fantasy Tour de France article, and that Friday is the latest day to either join the game or make changes to your team.

As it's already been stated elsewhere, PCM.daily is now working on its next database project. Unlike the Expansion Pack, this one will be 'full sized' with everything that's worth adding in a DB.

Over the past few days, we've been adding teams to the DB. We also had a poll in the forum section where we asked you what focus, team-wise, the DB should have, and we believe that the selection of teams do reflect what you, the members, asked for. Either way, you can see the list of teams by clicking 'Read More'. This is a preliminary list, and it may change, although it's unlikely.

There's still no release date, simply because we've no idea yet. When we know, you'll know.