Lizzie Armitstead commits to new contract with Boels-Dolmans
By Peter Gilbert
Last Updated: 03/05/16 5:42pm
Lizzie Armitstead has ended talk of early retirement by signing a two-year contract extension with Boels-Dolmans.
Armitstead hinted after winning the Road World Championships last year that she could call time on her career in the saddle after this summer's Olympics.
However, Britain's leading contender in Rio, who won silver in the road race in London 2012, has committed to new terms with the Dutch team.
The 27-year-old from Otley won the World Cup series in 2014 and 2015, when she also won the world title and this year she has won Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, the Strade Bianche, the Trofeo Binda and the prestigious Tour of Flanders.
"I have achieved my greatest sports successes in this environment and look forward to continuing my career here," Armitstead said on the team's official website.
Armitstead had said retirement after Rio was "possible" after winning the world champion's rainbow jersey she had long coveted in Richmond last September.
"As far as I'm concerned, as soon as you reach your goal then that's the box ticked for me, I don't feel the need to repeat titles or repeat victories, as soon as I get the one then I'm happy," she said on cyclingweekly.co.uk.
"So after Rio I don't know what I'll do, that's really just a massive question mark."
Dutch team manager Danny Stam has also renewed his contract until 2018.
