He was quoted in a gay magazine a few months back. He and Lance Armstrong experimented with each other.
He said that it wasn't for either of them.
At least they tried it.
Ah, the mental pictures that conjured up. :smile:
I think he was being entirely flippant. He was
responding to rumours that his friendship with "buddy" Armstrong was homoerotic (if not overtly homosexual). He did not
offer the comment unilaterally and without provocation. By flippantly - though misleadingly - conceding that they'd tried the gay thing
and decided it wasn't "for them", he cleverly - though casually - eshewed a tactic of outright rejection of the rumours (which could have been interpreted as hostility to gays) and also established that his sexuality is founded on an
experience from which he derived unequivocal confirmation of his heterosexuality and not on a reactive posture motivated by prejudice against homosexuality. In one comment he effectively put an end to the speculation.
I do like the cheeky new expression which has emerged from this episode though: "bromance" = romance between buddies!