Lance Armstrong is faced with a class action lawsuit by two men who had purchased and read his inspirational books; It's Not About the Bike and Every Second Counts, for being fraudulent in nature.
Rob Stutzman and Jonathan Wheeler claim in their lawsuit that they "would not have purchased the books had they known the true facts concerning Armstrong's misconduct and his admitted involvement in a sports doping scandal."
The class action lawsuit claims the men feel cheated after Armstrong admitted to Oprah Winfrey last week that he used banned drugs en route to his seven Tour de France victories.
"Plaintiffs and class members would not have purchased the books had they known the true facts concerning Armstrong's misconduct and his admitted involvement in a sports doping scandal that has to his recent and ignominious public exposure and fall from glory," the suit says.
The 57-page lawsuit also includes long passages from the books in which Armstrong denies doping or claims his athletic accomplishments were achieved without the help of performance-enhancing drugs.
"Both books have now been exposed as frauds," the plaintiffs said. "Armstrong now admits that without his use of banned performance enhancing drugs beginning in the mid-1990s, he would not have won and continued to win cycling races, including seven consecutive Tour de France races."
Armstrong's co-author, Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins, is not listed as a defendant in the suit.
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