Cooke nets soggy gold: Women's Road Race Cycling

Nicole Cooke of Great Britain opened up a long sprint with 200m to go to claim the gold medal in the Women's Road Race on Sunday under a torrential rainstorm along the Great Wall.

Emma Johansson of Sweden couldn't match Cooke's explosive sprint and got the silver medal. Tatiana Guderzo of Italy, who attacked with about 13km to go to forge the winning breakaway, hung on to win the bronze.

Cooke snuck into the winning, five-rider breakaway after following the attacking Guderzo in the decisive second and final lap of a 23.8km circuit at the end of the 126.4km Women's Road Race to claim Great Britain's first Gold medal of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.