Lance Armstrong settles with British newspaper

The Sunday Times, a British newspaper, has reached a settlement with Lance Armstrong after suing the disgraced cyclist to reclaim damages from a 2006 libel settlement.

In the initial settlement, Armstrong was paid 300,000 pounds (now about $470,000) to settle a case after the paper printed claims that he took performance-enhancing drugs.

But a report released by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency last year in fact confirmed that Armstrong had led a massive doping program, prompting a confession by the American, who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles.

The Sunday Times subsequently announced it was suing Armstrong for around 1 million pounds ($1.6 million) to reclaim the settlement payment plus interest and legal costs.

In Sunday's edition, the paper said it and the article's authors had reached a "mutually acceptable final resolution" with Armstrong, but said that the terms are confidential.

The Sunday Times chief sports writer David Walsh's co-authored book, "LA Confidential," detailed Armstrong's role in cycling's doping culture. It was later serialized by the paper in 2004.

Al Jazeera and the Associated Press