Lance Armstrong Facing Italian Trial For Defamation
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Stephen Farrand writes for Reuters:
Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will go on trial for defamation next year after losing a preliminary hearing against Italian rider Filippo Simeoni on Wednesday.
Italian judge Nicola Insiti decided American Armstrong should go on trial in Simeoni's home town of Latina near Rome on March 7 after he called Simeoni a liar in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde in 2003.
posted by Fergie @ 12/15/2005 11:46:00 AM
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This probably won't go anywhere. It's been in and out of the news for a long, long time. From Cycling News: "Armstrong faces a maximum penalty of six years in jail, but with the actual jurisdiction of the case in doubt, there is also a real chance that Simeoni's entire case will be thrown out of court."
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