Rasmussen extends with Rabobank

Michael Rasmussen has extended his contract with Rabobank by an additional year, taking him up to the end of 2007, as he writes on his diary on www.feltet.dk/michaelrasmussen. "There is quite some sense in striking while the iron is hot," he wrote. "There was a strong mutual interest. My pay check is a bit larger and at the same time Rabobank is assured that I do not leave."

The Danish rider would have liked to extend the deal covering 2008 as well. "That was a bit of a dream scenario. I turn 32 before the start of the next Tour de France, and therefore it would have been rather unusual. It is one thing being 21 years when you sign a three year contract, doing it at 31 is something quite different."

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