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Lance Armstrong Sued for Fraud Over His Memoirs

The lawsuit claims the seven-time Tour de France winner deceived readers when he denied doping accusations in his books. Patch readers were already unimpressed with Armstrong, even before he admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs.

Two California men have filed a class-action lawsuit against Lance Armstrong and his book publishers, claiming they were deceived by the cyclist’s memoirs, which were billed as non-fiction but recently revealed to be filled with lies, Yahoo! News reported.  In the books, Armstrong denied doping accusations, but during a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, the cyclist admitted to using banned performance-enhancing drugs to win a record seven Tour de France titles, which he has since been stripped of, LA Times reported.  Patch recently asked readers Does Lance Armstrong’s Doping Confession Change Your Opinion of Him? Bad Role Model The majority of readers said Armstrong’s confession didn’t change their opinions of him because they already …

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