Originally Posted by FixdGearHead
I've always heard people say that Lance is always qouted as saying he's "NEVER tested positive" for PED. Don't have examples to cite one way or another - but that is a bit of a play on words. Again - I don't have any examples one way or the other, so I'm just going off what I think I recall people saying.
Reminds me of the Chevy Chase quote (I think maybe FLETCH?) - something along the lines of:
- "Ever been convicted of a felony?"
- "Convicted? No, No, never...never."
From Lance's apperance on Larry King live after the L'Equip article
"The testing lab seriously violated two WADA [World Anti-Doping Agency] protocols." He repeated the same flat statement he's made for seven years, that he never used EPO or any other doping agent during his professional cycling career. Prompted by Costas, Armstrong did agree that EPO was part of his chemotherapy during his epic battle with testicular cancer, but "the last time I used it was late 1996"—well before his first win in the Tour de France in 1999.
I think the word NEVER was used here.