Throughout history the victors have earned to right to record the historical record as they see fit. Most historians have thus been on the winning side, or complete suck ups to the winning side as was Josephus. So basically we have much of history recorded with a definite slant in favor of the victors and quite often with the warts and blemishes removed from their side and added to the losing side. Thankfully archaeology and other sciences have helped us uncover a more accurate history in many cases. This has little to do with Lance Armstrong or the suit against his publishers, but it does point to the fact that most histories and biographies contain accounts that should and can be questioned for accuracy. Lawsuits like this are ridiculous but common in the USA where we cannot turn on a TV without seeing a host of ads from lawyers asking us to sue somebody. If this lawsuit were to be successful, and I seriously doubt it will be, then you could sue almost every publisher who ever published a book written by the hosts of long dead historians reaching back 2500 years or more, since portions of those histories have now been shown to contain at least some inaccuracies.