Jonathon littman executive producer of the amazing race said they are dropping the non-elimination rounds.?

in an interview with hal boedeker of the orlando sentinel reproduced on realityblurred.com executive producer jonathon littman of the amazing race said they were dropping the non-elimination rounds from future installments of the show. this interview was done months before this past installment of amazing race 12 that tk and rachael won . why did he lie about this? they still had the non-elimination rounds on the show, so nothing has changed. The shows producers should be truthful when being interviewed.