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Claude Perreault managed to peer through the rain and gloom to take these photos.

• Jeannie Longo (France) - chats with Geneviève Jeanson (Rona) at the start
• Preparation - Jeannie Longo adjusts her glasses, Geneviève Jeanson looks confident, a Saturn rider looks worried
• Lyne Bessette (Saturn) - flanked by team-mates at the start
• Geneviève Jeanson - soloing on lap five, two minutes ahead of the bunch
• Three laps to go and the chasing group, including Longo, Bessette, Melchers, Ljungskog, and Gilfillan was six minutes down on Jeanson
• Geneviève Jeanson - still charging hard with 500m to go
• Lyne Bessette - 500m from the line, battling for second place
• The podium
• Manon Jutras (Rona) - after the race

Alain Poupart also caught the action

• Jeannie Longo (France) - at the start
• Geneviève Jeanson - looking thoughtful on the start line
• The bunch - just after the start
• Geneviève Jeanson - isolated — except for a small motorcade
• Manon Jutras - looking as pleased as if she'd won and not team-mate Jeanson
• Geneviève Jeanson - is helped in by her coach
• The podium

And Michael Melita caught these images of the finish and of Genevieve Jeanson after her win.

• A jubilant Geneviève Jeanson - crosses the line in first place
• Lyne Bessette (Saturn) - looks pained as she is pipped at the line
• Geneviève Jeanson - a beacon of grin in the press scrum
• Geneviève Jeanson - ponders a tricky question in the post-race interviews