Armstrong Rides Off Into the Sunset, Splits from Crow

Singer Cheryl Crow and her fiance, seven-time Tour de France cycling champion and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, announced their decision to split up on Friday, after two and a half years of dating. The two met at a charity event in October 2003, and Armstrong proposed to Crow last August. The cyclist has three children from a previous marriage, which Crow dedicated a song to on her fifth album, "Wildflower." "It's kind of a reminder, particularly when you look at his young children, how they gravitate to goodness and to light," Crow said of the song to Rolling Stone. "The idea of the song is that no matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere." This would have been Crow's first marriage, and Armstrong's second.