Pooley also won her second Road World Cup event earlier this month
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Emma Pooley emulated Great Britain team-mate Nicole Cooke with victory in the Grande Boucle Feminine - the women's Tour de France. Pooley, who won Olympic time-trial silver in Beijing, clinched overall victory by 22 seconds. The Londoner, 27, won the individual time-trial on day one and triumphed in stage three by 20 seconds on Saturday. She consolidated her lead with a fifth-place finish in Sunday's final stage to follow up Cooke's 2006 and 2007 wins. Pooley's Cervelo Test Team team-mate Christiane Soeder of Austria was second, with Marianne Vos of Holland third in the four-stage race. Welsh star Cooke (Vision 1 Racing), who is the world and Olympic road race champion, won the Giro del Trentino in Italy last Friday.
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