Cycling Legend Lance Armstrong meet with Auckland fans for Ride with Lance at Mechanics Bay on Tuesday morning. Photo / Greg Bowker.
Lance Armstrong's US$100 million (NZ$138m) legal fight with the federal government has been set for a November trial.
US District Judge Christopher Cooper on Thursday set a Nov. 6 trial start in Washington.
Armstrong's legal team had asked to postpone trial until 2018 because of a potential scheduling conflict.
The
government wants Armstrong to pay back the US$32 million the U.S. Postal Service paid his team for sponsorship, plus triple damages.
Armstrong's former teammate Floyd Landis initially filed the whistle-blower case in 2010, accusing him of violating the sponsorship contract by taking performance-enhancing drugs.
