Tour de France 2009

The green jersey is awarded to the cycler who, at the end of the tour, has the most points in the sprinting rankings. Throughout most of the stages there are certain points (shown by the green markers) in which you can earn sprint points and points are also awarded at the end of the stage depending on your place (so the first place of a stage gets a certain amount of points and the second place gets a little less and so on). First off pick a team with a very good sprinter (e.g. Team Columbia with Cavendish or Rabobank with Freire). The tactic for gaining the most sprint points out of a stage are pretty much the same for each stage. First off as the stage starts there is usually a sprint point somewhere at the beginning. Immediately from the start have your sprinter at the front of the pack and wait until a couple of other cyclers make an attack and the go with them. When you have drained your red bar press the button twice and then put him on 100% using and once he crossed the line immediately put it back to min and let the pack catch up with him. Then just let him follow the pack and rest until the end. (Warning, DO NOT LET HIM ATTACK IN A STAGE WITH HIGH MOUNTAINS) Secondly, you need to make sure it will be a mass sprint. Usually the other cyclers that attacked with you at the beginning will still ride in a small group up front, don't worry to much about them because usually the other teams will let their cyclers ride in the front of the pack and gain in on the group up front. However, If this doesn't happen you have to make sure it will be a mass sprint by letting some of your own cyclers ride up front (Warning: DO NOT LET YOUR SPRINTER RIDE UP FRONT). To do this, select the cyclers you want to ride up front then press once and put them on 100% and then just wait until they have reached the group up front. And finally, the mass sprint: The mass sprints usually start off at about 22 km away from the finish, now just before that make sure that your sprinter is somewhere in the front (preferably next to the other major sprinters) and make sure that he has room to move once the sprint has started. What I mean by that is that you have to make sure you don't get blocked by an other cycler. When the mass sprint starts you take control of the selcted cycler (this should obviously be your sprinter) and then you can make him go left or right with and and you can make him go faster by tapping . However you can't let him just ride at the front the whole sprint because you have a power bar on the screen. This bar shows how fast your sprinter is going and, more importantly, how fast he can go, this is indicated by the 'max' symbol on the bar. When you are riding behind an other cycler the max symbol stays in place, but if there is no cycler in front of you the max symbol will gradually go to the left indicating you will go slower in time. The best tactic is to stay behind an other good sprinter (e.g. Hushovd or McEwan) and then when there is approximately 8 km to go go to the left or right and pass him while your max symbol is still to right, then just keep tapping and hope you win. If you repeat this process at every single flat stage you will get the green jersey 90% of the time (depending on how good you are in the mass sprint).