NEW YORK - Lance Armstrong spent Wednesday morning comforting 13-year-old Will Reeve, less than two days after his mother, Dana Reeve, died of lung cancer.

AUSTIN, Texas - Lance Armstrong and Sheryl Crow have split, the couple announced in a joint statement Friday night. The seven-time Tour de France champion and the rock star announced their engagement in September. It would have been her first marriage and his second. He has three children from a previous marriage.

WATERLOO, Wis. - When executives at the Trek Bicycle Corp. signed a contract with Lance Armstrong in 1998, they were betting the public would see the cyclist recovering from testicular cancer as a human interest story.

PARIS - Lance Armstrong is gone. What now for the Tour de France? For one, it should be a more closely contested race next year, with former champion Jan Ullrich and emerging new rivals battling for the yellow jersey.

ANGERS, France - To Lance Armstrong’s dismay, the Tour de France is turning into a demolition derby, with crashes galore — including one that took down the five-time champion.

AUSTIN, Texas - Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and rock star Sheryl Crow are engaged. The cyclist announced the engagement in a statement Monday.

SAINT-BRIEUC, France - Lance Armstrong believes Tour de France organizers could do more to calm nervous riders and avoid spills that could ruin his bid for a record sixth straight victory.

CHARTRES, France - Lance Armstrong lost his overall lead in the Tour de France to Thomas Voeckler on Thursday, an honor the fivetime champion willingly conceded — for now.

It seemed everything was arrayed against Lance Armstrong in this year's Tour de France. He had been ill before the race's start, a preparatory race he hoped for was canceled, and then there were two accidents in the race itself, on top of tendinitis caused by new shoes and a bike malfunction caused by a brake rubbing a tire.

LA MONGIE, France - The mountains bring out the best in Lance Armstrong.

Start icing the champagne.

NEW YORK - Lance Armstrong closed his weekly satellite radio show on a bittersweet note by playing ex-fiancee Sheryl Crow's song "Letter To God."

NAMUR, Belgium - Lance Armstrong has no doubts about the risks that lurk in the next stage of the Tour de France: If luck goes against him, he says, his drive for a record sixth straight win could be over almost before it’s begun.

ARRAS, France - Lance Armstrong took the overall lead Wednesday for the first time at this year’s Tour de France after one of the fastest time trials in race history.