Lance Armstrong may have lied, and lied vehemently, about using performance enhancing drugs during his bike-racing career, but that doesn’t mean he has to pay for it. Wasn’t being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and being banned from cycling competitions for life enough? His lawyers thinks so. And with Robert Luskin as his attorney, one of the most sought after lawyer in Washington, who represented Karl Rove, his race against the U.S. government will also be EPO supercharged.

He has a good case after all. Though the U.S. Postal System gave him and his team sponsorship money, they aren’t likely to get any of it back.

“Lance and his representatives worked constructively over these last weeks with federal lawyers to resolve this case fairly, but those talks failed because we disagree about whether the Postal Service was damaged.

“The Postal Service’s own studies show that the service benefited tremendously from its sponsorship – benefits totaling more than $100 million.”



And that’s not all. Though the government could pursue Armstrong under the False Claims Act, a 1863 law revitalized in 1986, using Floyd Landis as the whistleblower to open the case, they might not get anywhere.

For one thing, the sponsorship money is time-barred, with a six-year statute of limitations that has passed since 2004. Further, Armstrong signed no contract referencing doping or not doping. And finally, the contract was signed before Armstrong joined the team.

Despite Armstrong’s nefarious and infamous abuse of drugs to win his races, he never said he wouldn’t, contractually, so the Postal Service may have to settle down and accept the money they made off Armstrong without trying to reclaim the money they gave the team.