Andreu broke his silence about his 2004 testimony that Lance admitted to having used EPO before his cancer diagnosis.
The interviewer asked him why he didn't go public in 1996 when he heard the alleged admission. He answered that Lance was fighting for his life, and he (Andreu) didn't think it would have been right to say anything at the time.
Why then, the interviewer continued, didn't you say anything until 2004, long after Lance had been back in the peleton for years?
Are you ready for his answer? Here it is:
"I guess I forgot about it."
I can see how that could happen, because, it's not like anybody was alleging that Lance was doping in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003.
I mean, it would have been different if there had been, say...oh, I don't know....something to jog his memory....maybe a major doping scandal in the years between 96 and 04 in which the members of a prominent TDF team were arrested.
Of course, watching a guy crawl off his deathbed to win 1, then 2, then 3, then 4 successive Tours de France wouldn't jog one's memory about a doping admission. No, but the FIFTH one...THAT must have been the tipping point.
Yeah, right Frankie. You sold me!
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Reverisco!
The interviewer asked him why he didn't go public in 1996 when he heard the alleged admission. He answered that Lance was fighting for his life, and he (Andreu) didn't think it would have been right to say anything at the time.
Why then, the interviewer continued, didn't you say anything until 2004, long after Lance had been back in the peleton for years?
Are you ready for his answer? Here it is:
"I guess I forgot about it."
I can see how that could happen, because, it's not like anybody was alleging that Lance was doping in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003.
I mean, it would have been different if there had been, say...oh, I don't know....something to jog his memory....maybe a major doping scandal in the years between 96 and 04 in which the members of a prominent TDF team were arrested.
Of course, watching a guy crawl off his deathbed to win 1, then 2, then 3, then 4 successive Tours de France wouldn't jog one's memory about a doping admission. No, but the FIFTH one...THAT must have been the tipping point.
Yeah, right Frankie. You sold me!
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Reverisco!