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  1. Original post
    OxO
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    Fellow cycling fans,

    In the last month, we (a couple of Belgian students) have been developing Wielerprono.be . Our website has been online for over a week in dutch, but we decided to translate it into Enlgish and French too, to make it possible for all international cycling-fans to enter our FREE online pronostication game!
    Therefore, we are placing our link here, for 2 reasons!

    1) We would like you, native speakers, to check our translation! We are not native english speakers, and so there is a big chance that there are flaws in our translation. Names of races, small words, typical errors... We have no idea wether our translation is good or not. So we would LOVE to see it reviewed by people with better English skills than us 🙂

    2) We would love to get participants from all over the world. Our game will go on after the first part of the world cup with the tour de france, and with latter stages of the world cup. So the more international out participants are, the more fun we will have with the game... It would be great to see a lot of foreign competitors! (maybe they'll have a different view on cycling?)

    Anyhow, the link is www.wielerprono.be , and feedback is allways welcome!

    Thanks in advance for your interest, or even help!
    Jinx & Crombates
    www.wielerprono.be

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  2. rob of the og
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    Not sure anyone ever says "pronostication" in English, but I guess that's to fit in with the name of the site in Dutch. We'd usually call it 'fantasy cycling' or 'classics prediction' or something. Otherwise the site is nicely designed and the English is better than I could manage :-)

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  3. OxO
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    Originally posted by rob of the og
    Not sure anyone ever says "pronostication" in English, but I guess that's to fit in with the name of the site in Dutch. We'd usually call it 'fantasy cycling' or 'classics prediction' or something. Otherwise the site is nicely designed and the English is better than I could manage :-)

    So if we use prediction, that would be better? I honestly just took a dictionary 😄

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  4. ccorrick
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    I had to get out a dictionary!!! Never heard the word. Just added it to the "cool words" list 😄

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  5. OxO
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    Originally posted by ccorrick
    I had to get out a dictionary!!! Never heard the word. Just added it to the "cool words" list 😄

    So you're saying i knew an english word a native speaker did NOT know?

    haha
    Cool!

    (hehe, and don't forget to sign up too ccorrick 😉

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  6. ccorrick
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    Yeah,

    It's middle english. Very old word. It would be prognostication now if it was used(i'm sure someone uses it, but probably not in Texas, ROFL!!). Was never on my spelling list for sure 😉

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  7. Roche
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    The only time I heard that word was in a play in school written by the Irish playwrite Sean O'Casey! I think it was "Juno and the Paycock" and this dude called Joxer was in it complaing about the procrastinators and prognosticators.... I still dont have a clue what they are though???

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  8. OxO
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    Oh well 🙂

    It's a common word in dutch, so we hoped...
    hehe

    Anyhow, i guess the game is worth playing, even without a catchy name 😉

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  9. Rider63
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    For the bets on cycling www.MrBookmaker.com is nr 1 !

    For the present(sat. 31 jan.) Tour de France and Tour of Flanders are availables ! Soon the others races ....

    A little tip for your next races/bets ! 😉

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  10. OxO
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    hehe
    well, let it be clear

    We're not a bookie-association... Our game is just a fun game to show off your knowledge....

    oXo
    www.wielerprono.be

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  11. Rider63
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    Ah ok, sorry for my mistake and good luck for your project 😉

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  12. OxO
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    hehe
    thx

    We're going for the "hay guys let's do a prediction-game" kinda game 😉

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  13. jstraw
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    Ok, here's Team "Pinchflats":

    1 Paolo Bettini
    2 Erik Zabel
    9 Michael Boogerd
    18 Peter Van Petegem
    26 Michele Bartoli
    28 Luca Paolini
    34 Daniele Nardello
    35 Dave Bruylandts
    43 Stuart O'Grady
    90 Tom Boonen

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  14. lucky36
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    For the bookies Frank Vandenbroucke is the favorite for the 'Omloop Het Volk'(Race 1.1, saturday 28 feb.) with Peter Van Petegem, Johan Museeuw, Tom Boonen ....

    A betting is certainly a advantageous piece of information for a game as 'wielerprono' !

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  15. OxO
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    jstraw managed some points already, good work. Our site is still growing bigtime, feel free to enter te waiting list to join our Tour of France game!

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  16. jstraw
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    #69 baybeeee!

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  17. OxO
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    Originally posted by jstraw
    #69 baybeeee!

    that's excellent indeed!
    I'm on spot 106 at this time, with my best races yet to come 🙂

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  18. OxO
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    Okay, the first round is done, not many americans or englishmen, BUT:

    Inscriptions are open for our Tour de France game. I hope to see more of you there!

    http://www.wielerprono.be

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