Lizzy Armitstead (Boels Dolmans) wins the R🐷onde van Drenthe (Image credit:🗹 Bert Geerts/dcp-bertgeerts@xs4all.nl)
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Emma Johansson (Orica - AIS), left, outsprints British champi🔯on Lizzie Armi🍃tstead (Boels Dolmans) to win the second World Cup round of the 2014 season (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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The 2014 Trofeo Alfredo Binda podium (L-R): Elizabeth Armitstead (Boels Dolmans), Emma Johansson (Orica - AIS꧅) and Alena Amialiusik (Astana BePink) (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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The Ronde van Drenthe World Cup podium: Anna van der Breggen, Lizzy Armitstꦜead and Shelley Olds🌊 (Image credit: Bert Geerts/dcp🍷-bertgeerts@xs4all.nl)
Lizzie Armitstead has renewed her contract with Boels-Dolmans. The British champion will stay with the Dutch team until the end 2016.
The London Olympics silver medal winner started the season with a victory in Omloop het Hageland. One week later she won the first UCI Women Road World Cup race of the season: the Ronde van Drenthe. After a second place in the Trofeo Binda, Armitstead leads the World Cup standings by a❀ comfortable margin.
Sports director Danny Stam and world time trial champion Ellen van Dijk also signed a contract with the UCI wꦓomen's team until 2016. Armitstead has worked with Stam since she waꦐs part of the AA Drink-Leontien.nl team in 2012.
"I am very happy that I am going to stay with this team. The decision was made easier for me because Danny Stam and Ellen van Dijk will be staying on for the same period. I like to continue working with these ambitious people. I think that, as a team, 🌠we have the potential to become the best♛ in the world and I would like to contribute to that."
The 25-year-old British rider is one of the favorites for the Tour of Flanders this weekend. In the absence of Marianne💯 Vos, who will start her World Cup season in Flèche Wallonne later this month, Armitstead can take a decisive lead in the standings for the World Cup.
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