Reuters: Sports News: British paper to sue Armstrong

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British paper to sue Armstrong Dec 23rd 2012, 17:49 Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Cycling to be judged by Olympics, not Armstrong: McQuaid Thu, Dec 13 2012 Riders urged to cooperate to lift doping taint Mon, Dec 3 2012 Analysis & Opinion Greg Rusedski blog: Murray still my tip for Sports Personality glory Lance Armstrong walks back to his car after running at Mount Royal park with fans in Montreal August 29, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Christinne Muschi LONDON | Sun Dec 23, 2012 12:49pm EST LONDON (Reuters) - The Sunday Times is suing disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong for around one million pounds ($1.62 million) over his libel action against the British newspaper in 2004. Armstrong, who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles from 1999-2005 in October, received 300,000 pounds from the Sunday Times as payment towards his legal fees after the paper raised questions about the American's success following his recovery from testicular cancer. "It is clear that the proceedings were baseless and fraudulent. Your representations that you had never taken performance enhancing drugs were deliberately false," read the letter to Armstrong's lawyers in the Sunday Times. The paper is demanding the return of the 300,000 pounds payment plus interest, as well as costs accrued in defending the case, which was settled in 2006. A report by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in October said the now-retired Armstrong had been involved in the "most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program the sport has ever seen." Armstrong has always denied using performance-enhancing drugs but chose not to contest the USADA charges. ($1 = 0.6180 British pounds) (Writing by Tom Pilcher, Editing by Alison Wildey) Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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