The titanic legal battle between Lance Armstrong and the federal government has entered a sensitive new frontier – Armstrong's sex life.
The government wants to know: Did a key witness in the Armstrong doping scandal have an intimate relationship with him?
The issue came up June 9 during a pretrial deposition involving Stephanie McIlvain, a former representative for Oakley, the sunglasses company and one of Armstrong's former sponsors.
"Government counsel asked Ms. McIlvain questions about whether she and Armstrong had shared an intimate personal relationship," according to court documents filed Tuesday by Armstrong's attorneys.
Her responses are under seal, and Armstrong's attorney asked the government to "to confirm they would not ask similar questions of Armstrong or any other witness.