Lance Armstrong to argue US government should have known about doping on USPS team

As an American cyclist and fan of sport cycling, I am appalled at the total lack of morals this wanker has. We here in America, are throughly disgusted with LA and those that participated with him in their fraudulent charade of a "cycling team." He, along with the other cheats at USPS, deserve jail time.

That bloke's living knob-cheese.

This is the US government going after him - the Novitsky case was pulled for political purposes, we know, but that's not relevant now the election's over and he's 'fessed up, albeit partially. So the main argument here is going to be the statute of limitations, not whether of not the claim is a good one (which it will be for public policy reasons).

I don't like him at all but that doesn't mean I think all the other cheats should be forgotten and allowed to get away with it or even to profit further from it.

I'm not defending him at all, a lot of comments here are missing the point. He isn't being sued for doping, he's being sued for making false claims to gain access to federal funds. There's a big difference legally and only the former has been established as fact, the first hurdle for the prosecution will be to prove he did actually make a false claim directly to USPS.

I'd like to see them take every penny but his defence has a good chance of standing up in court for this specific case.

When a rat gets cornered it will do anything to escape.

Armstrong is in the corner. His lawyer Herman is looking more of an idiot everytime he opens his mouth.

Will enjoy how they slowly make Armstrong into a poor person.

I also hope all the others invloved in this, Wesiel, Stapleton, Knaggs, Ochowiz, Burke etc all get their posteriors well and truly kicked and kicked hard!

what an absolute twat

We're constantly hearing of America's love of guns, semi automatics, etc ..

Will someone please just shoot this hateful, sociopathic C••T and put him out of our misery already!!

Totally bizarre. "I'm innocent because you should have known how guilty I was". Is this the opening gambit of what will ultimately be a defence of "Not guilty by reason of insanity"?

This is the story that just keeps giving. It's very entertaining, almost as good as watching the Tour itself.

You don't expect him to mount a defense ? I suppose you'd all just write a $90 million cheque ? Get a grip, he hasn't come up with this himself, it's what his lawyers think is his best chance at keep the cash.

Can't believe LAndis stands to land 25%, who says cheats never prosper ?

the man is a complete FW! Not my fault - they should have stopped me. What an Ar5e!

Based on this Train of thought, I reckon "DaveO" from the Aussie Fireball stunt story needs to take some responsibility as well. In fact I think we all should, God I'm disgusted with myself, what have we, ALL, done to this beautiful sport? Poor Lance.

Priceless.

I do feel some "sympathy" for Lance and his stance that he is being made the scapegoat. Sadly the reason for the majority of that his how he behaved does behave. When you are a bully those you have picked on will be awaiting your fall with anticipation.

But can't he see that as the others are now being held up as virtuous by (finally) admitting fully there misdeeds that he is only harming himself by not going the whole hog.

It is very hard (for me anyway) to take either side in this. LA deserves what he gets but don't now tell me that Tyler/Floyd etc are paragons of virtue.

No one is coming out of this well.

Those who have followed the career of Lance Armstrong will not be surprised to learn he is now employing a Chewbacca Defense. It is totally in character: a cheat in sports is hardly likely to play fair in the rest of life. Besides, the American legal system is so screwed up these days, it'll probably work.

What about Brunyeel, Hamilton, Ferrari, Hincapie, Andreu....? Especially as some of them were at it before Lance even arrived at USPS!

Lance deserves to be made to pay back his ill-gotten gains, but so do the rest of the dopers. If Lance defrauded US government then the whole team did.

I can't see them winning the case though. Lance never made any claims, false or otherwise directly to USPS and Tailwind reportedly didn't specify riding clean in the contract. Never mind the statute of limitations, his "everyone was at it" argument does actually work here to some extent - no-one is going to believe USPS didn't have any suspicions at least.

shameless. What a bell end.

"You can't punish me for it now, because I was denying it and throwing so many sueballs around for years that it should have been obvious that I was a lying, cheating, sociopathic prick - duh!"

@Northstar - no, apparently not!

Is he for real?