Lance Armstrong has said that he cannot afford to lose $100m if the upcoming whistleblower lawsuit brought by former US Postal team-mate Floyd Landis and the US Government goes against him.
“If I lost, we would not be sitting at this table anymore,” Armstrong said at an interview featured by Cycling Weekly. “We wouldn’t be sitting in this home anymore. We wouldn’t be sitting in any home. I don’t have $100 million.
“We like our case is all I will say. I’m not going to jinx myself. But I don’t know. How do you guys see it? Say the jury says: ‘Pay up $100 million.’ Floyd Landis gets $33 million. Is everybody at this jury happy with that? I would think what everybody thinks – there’s no logic to that.
"I don’t have to make a case for me, but you can at least see what it’s done to the sport. I do know it had a real negative effect on the fact that Chris Froome or whoever, they’re still answering questions about some old guy. Sponsors left, races folded, the media totally turned.
“The industry, just look at the trend. You guys [in the British media] probably live in a bubble because Britain has ridden this wave behind Bradley Wiggins, Froome and Sky, but there’s been a lot of negative fallout."
More on this - http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/lance-armstrong-i-cant-afford-to-lose-100-million-in-legal-case-176336