GOLD FOR NICOLE COOKE IN WOMEN'S ROAD RACE

Nicole Cooke Olympic Games 2008 gold medal

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Nicole Cooke won Great Britain?s first gold medal of the Olympic Games ? but she put her fans through the full range of emotions in the final kilometre of a race run in torrential rain.

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THE RACE REPORT
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WOMEN?S ROAD RACE RESULT
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OLYMPIC GAMES 2008: NEWS
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OLYMPIC GAMES 2008: ROAD
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OLYMPIC GAMES 2008: GUIDE

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Sports journalist Lionel Birnie has written professionally for Sunday Times, Procycling and of course Cycling Weekly. He is also an author, publisher, and co-founder of The Cycling Podcast. His first experience covering the Tour de France came in 1999, and he has presented The Cycling Podcast with Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe since 2013. He founded Peloton Publishing in 2010 and has ghostwritten and published the autobiography of Sean Kelly, as well as a number of other sports icons.