Lance Armstrong suggested Thursday that he was the victim of a “setup,” saying he didn’t trust the French lab that released test results leading to blood doping allegations against him.

Armstrong’s comments came after Dick Pound, head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, said officials had received the lab results and would review them.

“There’s a setup here and I’m stuck in the middle of it,” Armstrong told the Associated Press. “I absolutely do not trust that laboratory.”

The French sports daily L’Equipe reported Tuesday that six urine samples Armstrong provided during his first tour win in 1999 tested positive for the red blood cell-booster EPO.

“If he had one, you could say it was an aberration,” Pound said. “When you get up to six, there’s got to be some explanation.”

Armstrong, who retired after his seventh straight tour victory in July, has angrily denied the L’Equipe report. He also said while Pound might trust the lab that tested the samples, “I certainly don’t.”

On Thursday night, Armstrong elaborated on his distrust of the French laboratory during an appearance on CNN’s “Larry King Live.”

“A guy in a Parisian laboratory opens up your sample, you know, Jean Francois so-and-so, and he tests it – nobody’s there to observe, no protocol was followed – and then you get a call from a newspaper that says ‘We found you to be positive six times for EPO.’ Well, since when did newspapers start governing sports?”

Pound said the lab had asked WADA months ago if the agency was interested in reviewing its findings and that he agreed. He said the agency didn’t expect names to be connected to the findings, but only wanted to see if the leftover samples from 1999 would show riders used EPO.

“They said it’s simply research,” Pound said.

Pound said he was waiting for WADA science director Olivier Rabin to return from Europe to review the results.

The lab report doesn’t name Armstrong, but shows the results of tests on anonymous urine samples. While L’Equipe said it was able to match Armstrong to the positive samples, Pound said the lab and WADA officials could not do that.

The French report appeared stronger than previous doping allegations raised against Armstrong, Pound said.