Olympics | Rain fails to dampen Brown's spirits as Australian takes time-trial gold in goodbye season

PARIS, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Grace Brown of Australia won the first cycling gold medal of the Paris Olympic Games on Saturday when she won the women's time-trial by an impressive margin of a minute and 31 seconds, to help crown her career.

The Australian, who has said she will retire from cycling at the end of the season, produced a dominant ride in treacherous conditions in Paris to finish one minute and 31 secon