Cycling: Armstrong fails in bid to update book

A Paris judge has rejected Lance Armstrong's attempt to force a publisher to insert the star cyclist's denial of doping allegations into copies of a new book about him.

The five-times Tour de France winner wanted publisher La Martiniere to insert a notice into L.A. Confidential, the Secrets of Lance Armstrong, with his rebuttal against doping claims contained in the book.

But Judge Catherine Bezio called the request an "abuse" of the legal system and ordered Armstrong to pay the authors and publisher a symbolic $1.20 fine.