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PHOENIX -- Larry Fitzgerald says he has restructured his contract with the Arizona Cardinals, reducing a big salary-cap hit from his old deal and creating room for signing other players. Raphael Varane Jersey . Fitzgerald announced the move on Tuesday via his Twitter account. The receiver says the move was made to help the Cardinals "get better for 2014." Under his old deal, Fitzgerald would have earned $12.75 million next season and counted a whopping $18 million on the cap. The restructured contract came as no surprise. Fitzgerald said in a radio interview in New York last week that he understood the need to restructure his deal. "When those discussions come I will do what I need to do," Fitzgerald told Arizona Sports 98.7 in an interview at the Super Bowls "radio row." "I have a great relationship with (general manager) Steve Keim, he drafted me in Arizona. I understand his vision and what he is trying to do and the direction he is taking this ballclub. I understand at 30 years old there are things that need to change. Thats part of football, thats part of being an older veteran." Fitzgerald said he knew Patrick Petersons "deal is coming up and he needs to be compensated as the best corner in the game, which I feel he is." Fitzgerald also mentioned defensive linemen Darnell Dockett and Frostee Rucker. "There are a lot of guys that deserve to be compensated for their play," he said in the radio interview, "and I understand that." Fitzgerald is on his third contract in his 10 NFL seasons, all with the Cardinals. Last season, he made his eighth Pro Bowl. Fitzgerald holds every Cardinals career receiving record. He caught 82 passes, most on the team, for 954 yards and 10 touchdowns last season. In his career, Fitzgerald has 846 catches for 11,367 yards and 87 touchdowns. He has not missed a game since the 2007 season. The Cardinals, coming off a 10-6 season in their first year with Keim as GM and Bruce Arians as coach, had several players on one-year contracts, including inside linebacker Karlos Dansby, who resurrected his career with a big season, leading the team in tackles. Azcentral.com reported that the restructuring was a simple swap of bonus money for salary, saving the team about $10 million on the coming seasons cap. Cardinals President Michael Bidwill expressed confidence last week that the restructuring would get done. Keim has repeatedly said the team has no intention of trading Fitzgerald and wants him to retire a Cardinal. Raphael Varane France Jersey .J. -- All those records, all for naught. Adil Rami Jersey . On Thursday, they signed former Browns linebacker DQwell Jackson. Terms of the deal were not immediately available. http://www.nationalfrancesoccer.com/ousmane-dembele-france-jersey/ . "I never commented to anyone that I wanted out," he explained. "My heart is with this group and making the playoffs." Kesler added that the rumours are "completely false" that he asked to be traded - recently or ever.Around 70 Russian competitors have flown to Rio ahead of next months Olympic Games amid continuing doubt about how many members of the countrys 387-strong squad will be allowed to take part. Over 100 Russians have been banned from the Games due to the state-sponsored doping scandal. The track and field team has been banned en masse, including world-renowned stars such as pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva and high hurdler Sergey Shubenkov.But the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced last weekend that, rather than impose a blanket ban on Russian competitors, global sporting federations would make decisions on a case-by-case basis. Pole vaulting great Yelenia Isinbayeva, will have to sit out the Olympics Rowers, swimmers, weightlifters and canoeists have subsequently been added to the excluded list, but it was announced on Thursday that four Russian badminton players are in the draws for Rio while Russias volleyball, handball and synchronised swimming squads flew out that day.Alexander Zhukov, the head of Russias Olympic Committee, said: We anxiously waited for this day, we worried. You know yourselves what the situation is.It is now time to put all doubts aside, the Russian team is going to the Olympics.Dressed in red and white sports uniforms the Olympic hopefuls received a warm send-off despite the controversy.Handball player Polina Kuznetsova said: They have got us firedd up but in a good way. Samuel Umtiti Jersey. We are going to fight more, to prove that it is difficult to break Russia.We will fight for those who were not able to go. Russias Olympic Committee (ROC) president Alexander Zhukov Zhukov said less than 100 Russian competitors were still waiting to find out their fates and that the final make-up of the team should be announced over the weekend, just a few days before the start of the Games.Vladimir Malkov and Natalia Perminova are set to participate in the mens and womens badminton singles, while Vladimir Ivanov and Ivan Sozonov will line up in the mens doubles.Badminton World Federation (BWF) Secretary General Thomas Lund said: We have had a rigid drug-testing programme, especially leading up to Rio 2016, and all four Russian athletes have been tested in and out of competition and their samples have been analysed outside of Russia.We believe the information that we have provided on these athletes lives up to the criteria for participation in the Badminton Competition at Rio 2016, but it is left for the IOC to validate.We have chosen to keep them in the draw, pending that validation. 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