Lance Armstrong could be willing to take a lie detector test as he tries to prove he is not guilty of doping allegations, the American's lawyer claimed on Sunday.
Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and banned from the sport for life after the organisation claimed he orchestrated the most sophisticated doping programme ever seen.
But the Texan's lawyer Tim Herman insists Armstrong would consider taking a lie detector test if the 26 witnesses who testified against him to the USADA would do the same. "A lie detector test properly administered, I'm a proponent of that frankly, just personally," Herman told BBC Radio Five's Sportweek on Sunday.
"I wouldn't challenge the results of a lie detector test with good equipment, properly administered by a qualified technician. That's a pretty simple answer."
Asked if Armstrong would take a lie detector test himself, Herman said: "We might do that, you never know. I don't know if we would or we wouldn't. We might."
Pressed on whether Armstrong had any reason not to take a test, Herman added: "Because he's moved on. His name is never going to be clear with anyone beyond what it is today.
"People are fans, most of the people that I've talked to, this is their opinion, it is, 'We don't care whether he did or he didn't'." USADA say their evidence against Armstrong is "beyond strong" and stretched to more than 1,000 pages, but Herman cast doubt on the 26 witnesses, 11 of whom were former team-mates of Armstrong and who revealed their own doping past by testifying.
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