Reed Albergotti - Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever

USADA: United States Anti-Doping Agencythe government-funded nonprofit based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that oversees anti-doping efforts in Olympic sports in the United States.

UCI: Union Cycliste Internationale (or International Cycling Union)the sports governing body, in Aigle, Switzerland. Its set up to promote cycling as a sport but also responsible for the sports anti-doping policy.

Betsy Andreu: Opinionated, feisty wife of Frankie Andreu and a stay-at-home mother to three kids in Dearborn, Michigan.

Frankie Andreu: Michigan-born Motorola cyclist with a lanky build and a cranky disposition. Andreu lived with Lance in Como, Italy, and became road captain on the US Postal team in 1999.

Kristin Richard Armstrong: Career-minded public-relations woman from a wealthy family; met Lance in 1997 in Austin, Texas, shortly after he finished his chemotherapy. After they married in 1998, she quit working to raise their son and twin daughters, living in the French Riviera and Girona, Spain. They divorced in 2003.

Terry Keith Armstrong: Lances stepfather; Armstrong adopted Lance soon after marrying Linda Mooneyham in 1974.

Dr. Arnie Baker: Floyd Landiss cycling coach and supporter, and a retired San Diego physician.

Michael Ball: Former track cyclist and Los Angeles fashion mogul; founded, owned, and sponsored Rock Racing in 2007. Ball was targeted by FDA special agent Jeff Novitzky in his investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in cycling.

Michael Barry: Lances teammate from 2002 to 2005; had intimate knowledge of the doping era. Barry wrote a firsthand account of his career with Lance (Inside the Postal Bus) without mentioning the doping on the team.

William Bill Bock III: USADAs general counsel; a soft-spoken attorney born in Texas and raised in Indiana. Bock represented athletes for years and became the lead attorney for the US Anti-Doping Agency in 2007.

Edward Eddie B Borysewicz: Gruff cycling coach who emigrated from Poland to the United States, bringing Eastern Bloc tactics to America and coaching Greg LeMond and Lance Armstrong, among others. Borysewicz convinced eighteen-year-old Lance to join Subaru-Montgomery in 1990, giving Lance his first cycling contract.

Johan Bruyneel: Belgium-born former road racer who became the US Postal Service team boss and oversaw operations, with Lances input, on Postal, Discovery Channel, Astana, and RadioShack-Nissan teams.

Chris Carmichael: Coach of the US junior national cycling team, who recruited Lance to the team in 1991 and eventually made a name for himself as Lances cycling coach.

Edward Coyle: University of Texas researcher who studied Lance in a sports lab from 1992 to 1999. His findings that Lance had become a more efficient cyclist post-cancer, with a naturally higher VO max than the average male, were widely reported by the media as fact. He admitted in 2008 to a minor error in his calculations.

Rick Crawford: One of Lances first (unpaid) cycling coaches and a mentor; became a Dallas-based pro triathlete in 1985.

Sheryl Crow: Missouri-born musician and songwriter who began a relationship with Lance in 2003 and became engaged to him in 2005. They broke up before a planned wedding in 2006.

Mark Fabiani: Lances crisis management consultant and media point man, hired in 2010; a slick-haired Harvard Law grad who became known as the Master of Disaster when he served as special counsel to President Clinton during the Whitewater investigations in the early 1990s.

Dr. Michele Ferrari: An Italian sports doctor and mathematician; caused a scandal in a 1994 interview by saying erythropoietin (EPO) was no more dangerous than orange juice. Ferrari became Lances personal trainer in 1995.

Jeffrey C. Garvey: Founding chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation and cofounder of Austin Ventures.

Mark Gorski: General manager of the US Postal Service team and one of the owners of Tailwind Sports, which owned and managed Postal. Gorski first achieved fame after winning gold in the 1984 Olympics in track cycling.

Edward Eddie Gunderson: Lances free-spirited biological father, who divorced Linda in 1973, when Lance was two, after a turbulent and abusive relationship.

Tyler Hamilton: Lances teammate on the US Postal Service team; won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics but received suspensions and bans from cycling after testing positive for EPO. He admitted to doping before a grand jury in 2010.

Robert Bob Hamman: Founder of SCA Promotions, which insured Tailwind Sports against some of Lances bonuses for winning the Tour de France.