DALLAS (Reuters) - Lawyers for Lance Armstrong went to court in Dallas on Friday to try to block a sports insurance company from re-opening an arbitration decision forcing the firm to pay $12 million in bonuses to the disgraced cyclist.
Dallas-based SCA Promotions said that Armstrong lied for years about using performance-enhancing drugs and has sued to re-open the 2006 arbitration decision made before he finally admitted to doping.
The bonus money from SCA is for three of Armstrong's seven Tour de France championships, which were rescinded because of doping.
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