Drug cheat Lance Armstrong has met up with one of his former 'victims', Christophe Bassons, to apologise for his role in forcing the French cyclist off the 1999 Tour de France, according to reports.
According to News.com.au, the disgraced US rider, stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life for serial drugtaking, held face-to-face talks with Bassons in a Paris hotel.
Bassons was riding for Festina when the team became embroiled in a doping scandal in 1998, the report said.
The following year he abandoned his one and only Tour de France after a posse of riders, led by Armstrong, made their dissatisfaction clear following his anti-doping sentiments expressed in a newspaper column, the report added.
He retired from professional cycling in 2001, the report further said.
This latest apology follows Armstrong's meeting last month with Emma O'Reilly, the whistleblowing masseuse on Armstrong's former US Postal team, according to the report.