Team GB Strike First Gold

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Nicole Cook becomes the first Welsh person to win an Olympic event since Richard Meade in 1972, by winning the Mass Start Roadrace.

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[pappubahry.livejournal.com]

She was really, really lucky. Very bad riding from the other four in the lead group. I didn't see exactly why, but Cooke came out of the last main corner well behind the others. If they'd gone hard Cooke wouldn't have caught them. But they kept at their steady pace, and Cooke caught on and then had too much speed up the final climb.