The womens road race leaves the start at Buckingham Palace under darkening skies...
olympicslondonscenery
The small peloton passes Harrods before the real racing starts...
olympicsharrods
Emma Pooley changes a wheel after a flat tyre in the Brompton Road...
olympics
Amanda Spratt also needs a new wheel...
Mei Yu Hsiao of Tapei is one of several to fall at the entry to Bushy Park...
The peloton passes Diana's Fountain in Bushy Park...
Noemi Cantele wants a quick wheel-change near Weybridge...
Giorgia Bronzini is another Italian needing some help...
Robyn DeGroot falls as the race climbs Staple Lane...
The peloton climbs Box Hill with Clara Hughes and Emma Pooley at the head of affairs...
The women have attracted crowds at Box Hill on a similar scale to yesterday's men race...
Nicole Cooke is fighting to stay in contact on a secondary hill halfway around the circuit, but her strength will bring her back..!
Ellen Van Dijk attacks at the start of the second climb of Box Hill...
Marianne Vos has attacked, but she has Lizzie Armitstead with her, and the move fails...
Evelyn Stevens now attacks, but Pooley is with her right away...
Vos has attacked again and forges a quartet of escapers as the race heads away from Box Hill towards London...
Armitstead leads the escape with Vos, Olga Zabelinskya and Shelley Olds following her into the rain...
Judith Arndt is the strongest rider to chase - but the gap is already at 45-seocnds...
Cantele chases for Italy - and for Bronzini..!
The umbrellas are up as Armitstead leads Vos and Zabelinskaya race towards Hampton Court with a 50-second lead...
Armitstead appears to be attacking in Richmond Park..!
It's Vos versus Armitstead on The Mall - who can win after such a tough day..?
Marianne Vos wins the Womens Olympic Road Race ahead of Lizzie Armitstead...
Marianne Vos has just secured her greatest triumph in a career that has no known ending..!
Ina Teutenberg wins 4th place for Germany...
sprintrain
Marianne Vos poses with Lizzie Armitstead and Olga Zabelinskaya in London