Money is one thing, but I have always felt that if Armstrong was indeed dirty, and he admitted to it, a large and sincere apology was in store for Greg LeMond.  Sheryl Crow was with Lance Armstrong when he went to receive an illicit blood transfusion and later told federal investigators about what she'd seen, according to a new book about the doping conspiracy that propelled Armstrong's cycling teams. Lance Armstrong is stripped of his seven Tour de France titles over doping. In their forthcoming book, "Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever," Wall Street Journal reporters Reed Albergotti and Vanessa O'Connell give an inside account of Armstrong's career, from his enormous commercial and competitive success to his take-no-prisoners approach to protecting a devastating secret.
– A new book claims that Sheryl Crow was with then-boyfriend Lance Armstrong during one of his secret blood transfusions—and that she ultimately snitched on him to federal investigators. The New York Daily News got an early look this week at Wheelmen by Wall Street Journal reporters Reed Albergotti and Vanessa O'Connell, and it recounts the Belgium incident. "Rather than try to hide the transfusion from her, Armstrong was completely open about it," the authors write. "He trusted that Crow would have no desire to tell the press or anyone else about the team's doping program. He explained that it was simply part of the sport—that all cyclists were doing the same thing." Five years after the couple broke up, however, the criminal probe against Armstrong was launched, and Crow spoke to investigators in 2011. The book says she was protected from prosecution by cooperating with the investigation.