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Armstrong faces two new lawsuits

Roar Guru
2nd March, 2013
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Lance Armstrong is now facing two more lawsuits in the wake of his admission that all seven of his Tour de France victories were fueled by banned drugs.

The Nebraska-based Acceptance Insurance Company sued Armstrong and Tailwind Sports Corporation claiming he commited fraud by concealing his use of performance enhancing drugs during the 1999, 2000 and 2001 Tours.

“By his cheating and deception, Armstrong committed fraud. This suit seeks repayment of $3 million in undeserved an unearned pay Lance Armstrong obtained by fraud,” stated the lawsuit filed in Travis County Court in Austin, Texas.

The payment cited was a $3 million bonus paid to Armstrong for his first three Tour victories.

Acceptance claims that Armstrong’s lies void the policy under which the money was paid out.

In October, Armstrong was stripped of his Tour titles as well as all other results from August 1998 and banned for life after the US Anti-Doping Agency determined he was the key figure in a sophisticated doping program on his US Postal Service team.

He finally made a belated admission of doping in a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey in January, in which he said he used a combination of blood-doping transfusions, blood-boosting EPO and testosterone throughout his career.

Armstrong was also sued on Thursday in a federal court in Los Angeles in a class-action lawsuit claiming Armstrong and FRS — maker of nutritional supplements — engaged in false advertising.

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He also faces two prior lawsuits, one seeking $12 million over bonus money paid for Tour titles and the other a fraud lawsuit that the US government said it would join last week, one that could deliver a triple-damages blow costing Armstrong more than $90 million.

Meanwhile, Armstrong, who had his seven Tour de France titles scrapped, could now be stripped of the Legion d’Honneur, France’s highest honour.

Armstrong was awarded the title Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur in 2005 in recognition of his seventh Tour win, but moves are now afoot to have the honour rescinded, according to a spokesman for the order.

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