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Lance Armstrong ordered to pay insurance company £6.5m

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Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has been ordered to pay insurance company SCA Promotions $10m (£6.5m) in damages, in what is thought to be the largest award of sanctions assessed against an individual in American judicial history.

The 43-year-old Texan will foot the bill alongside Tailwind Sports Corporation following a fraud dispute for what an arbitration panel called an "unparalleled pageant of international perjury, fraud

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