Armstrong: after the debacle moral, legal and financial worries.

Lance Armstrong .

 Doping confessions on TV former U.S. cyclist Lance Armstrong, may now cost him dearly financially. An insurance company is seeking millions of dollars for a history of premiums during Tour de France unduly received. A combination of cycling teams are preparing to do the same by way of damages for damage to the image of cycling. Not to mention the potential problems with the criminal justice ...

Lance Armstrong is ordered to proceed to checkout after confessed. This is his insurance company SCA Promotions that opened fire first. It demands no less than 12 million and did not hesitate to complain, especially in a court of Dallas County, Texas (south) where is the seat of the insurer.
 
Bonuses that were awarded to the seven titles in the Tour de France:

It is originally a $ 7.5 million bonus reward Texan victories in Tour de France 2002, 2003 and 2004. Suspicious, the insurance company had tried at first not to honor this contract, based on the rumors of doping rustled about the American rider. Lance Armstrong has however managed to uphold justice through arbitration, the payment of premiums in 2006. He even got about 5 million more as damages and legal costs.
More than $ 12 million that the insurance company SCA Promotions is now estimated to have paid wrong, since the Lance Armstrong doping official and his seven Tour de France titles (1999-2005) have been removed. In the document of the complaint to the insurer, and you can read this argument: "Today, everyone knows that Lance Armstrong has perpetuated what might be lying in cold blood the most developed and the most outrageous of the sports history. It is now time for Mr. Armstrong to face the consequences of his actions. Mr. Armstrong has the right to keep any money paid by SCA victory, because it is the official winner no Tour de France, "reads the document insurer SCA Promotions.

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Federations of cyclists are also claiming damages:

Side of American cyclist, trying somehow to block another legal argument too. The insurer has signed a definitive agreement to commit to never return on premiums paid for any reason whatsoever. "No party may sue, appeal or attempt to depart from the premium arbitration "agreement stipulate that lawyers American rider happy to show the press. To be continued ...

Like another complaint is preparing to call again in the former American rider, this time from the Movement for cycling credible

(MPCC). This association was founded in 2007, which brings together leaders of cycling teams, provides in its constitution that actions for damages may be brought "against competitors or other persons who may have harmed the image."

In general meeting in France (Roissy), the MPCC has indicated by its chairman, Roger Legeay that "following the confession of Lance Armstrong, is studying the possibility of an action for damages for breach the image of cycling, for fraud or any other head of prosecutions could be retained, "against one" who has disfigured cycling, disfigured seven Tours de France. "

 

And finally, the criminal justice system?

Lance Armstrong and his publisher are also pursued by two Californians for fraud and false advertising. They believe that the memories of the Texan have only now lies he confessed to systematically doped.

But the worst is to come to Armstrong involvement of criminal justice. The U.S. television network ABC News has confirmed that a federal investigation was opened against Lance Armstrong for "obstruction of justice, witness tampering and intimidation," without revealing the name of the U.S. government agency that conducting this survey.