Good Morning America Accuses Today Show Of Doping Floyd Landis Interview

Producers at Good Morning America are fuming over an exclusive live interview they thought they had with Floyd Landis — the American cyclist who since winning the Tour De France has been the subject of doping allegations — that was effectively stolen by the Today Show, which ran a pre-taped Matt Lauer interview with Landis this morning before GMA ran theirs.

A publicist for Landis forwarded this statement, attributed to the American cyclist: “I’m disappointed that NBC’s The Today Show chose the tact of pre-empting the live segment we offered Good Morning America and ABC.

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