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US judge says Armstrong doping suit may proceed
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A FEDERAL judge said on Monday he likely will allow a lawsuit to move forward accusing cyclist Lance Armstrong and his business partners of defrauding the US Postal Service of endorsement money through Armstrong’s use of performance-enhancing drugs.
US District Judge Robert Wilkins said at a court hearing in Washington that he planned to rule in writing within 30 days on requests by Armstrong and the other defendants to dismiss the suit. “It might get dismissed as to some defendants. I can tell you I doubt it as to all,” Wilkins said. He was not specific about which defendants might still face claims.
Former Armstrong teammate Floyd Landis brought the suit in 2010 under a federal law that allows whistleblowers to report fraud against the government in exchange for a reward.
The US Justice Department joined the suit in February.
Meanwhile, former UCI president Hein Verbruggen has questioned Armstrong’s credibility after the American rider implicated the Dutchman in covering up doping at the 1999 Tour de France. “Since when do people believe Lance Armstrong?” Verbruggen said. “Since he told Oprah Winfrey he had never ‘sorted out’ anything with the UCI? Or since he (for money!) makes films and gives interviews in which he apparently has to serve up juicy details?”
Armstrong’s allegations were published by Britain’s Daily Mail where he claimed Verbruggen insisted “we’ve got to come up with something” to explain the American’s positive tests for a banned corticosteroid.
“His story is illogical because it was not about a positive/punishable act according to the anti-doping authority involved,” wrote Verbruggen, adding that cycling’s governing body did not have lead responsibility for anti-doping at the race 14 years ago.
“That authority was not the UCI but the French ministry. From accusations a year ago about large-scale complicity of the UCI in doping by Lance Armstrong and his team, we’re now back to a cortisone case from 1999 that was not even handled by the UCI,” said the former president.
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