British paper sues Lance Armstrong for $1.5m over lost libel action

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The disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong is being sued for more than $1.5m by a British newspaper which lost a libel action for publishing doping allegations against him.

The Sunday Times paid Armstrong £300,000 (now about $485,000) in 2006 to settle a case after it reprinted claims from a book in 2004 that he took performance-enhancing drugs.

This year, the US Anti-Doping Agency found that Armstrong had led a massive doping program on his teams. Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned from cycling for life. The Sunday Times announced in an article in its latest edition that it has issued legal papers against Armstrong.

"It is clear that the proceedings were baseless and fraudulent," the paper said, in a letter to Armstrong's lawyers. "Your representations that you had never taken performance enhancing drugs were deliberately false." ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/dec/23/sunday-times-sues-lance-armstrong