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Losers in Defamation Suit Want Their Money Back From Cycling Cheat Lance Armstrong
(Newser) – 
Britain’s Sunday Times once paid Lance Armstrong $485,000 to settle a libel lawsuit over doping allegations, and it would like its money back: In more bad news for the disgraced cycling champ, the Times has filed legal paperwork “demanding a return of the settlement payment plus interest, as well as its costs in defending the case.” The grand total? Likely to be north of $1.6 million. The original suit was settled in 2004, notes the AP.
Bad Brad
December 24th, 2012
That’s a lot of money. Maybe they’d settle for one of his nuts.
kvn
December 24th, 2012
Lance has never failed a drug test or been found guilty in a court of law. He refused to enter arbitration with WADA, because agreeing to arbitration is tacit admission of guilt and the best one can hope for is a decent settlement. The inadmissible evidence with which WADA built the case against Lance was gained through arbitration settlements.
serfer62
December 24th, 2012
Tjanks kvn…the headline is missleading
Ricky
December 24th, 2012
I don’t care what anyone says about Lance, I think he got screwed over.
Bad Brad
December 24th, 2012
Rick, he did it. So does everyone else. The mistake he made was winning. The whole cycling, blood doping thing is a joke.
gastorgrab
December 24th, 2012
Did the cycling board EVER produce any physical evidence?
Personally, I don’t care if he did what he was accused of, or not. Without a legal determination from a court of LAW, no one has a legal right to slap a ‘Fraud’ label on him.
The cycling board, regardless of what they BELIEVE to be true, still must submit evidence to a court before any legal accusation is proved. Our legal process exists for a reason. And just because everyone believes something to be true, that doesn’t make it true. ‘Argumentum ad populum’is a logical fallacy.
Unslung Hero
December 25th, 2012
I don’t care what kinda dope you are “accused” of being on you can’t win that many times unless you are the GREATEST cyclist in the world…PERIOD!!
Screw WADA!!!