The Amazing Race Recap - Read it and Weep - by Wolfie
CBS The Amazing Race: Leaving from Fortaleza Brazil headed for La Paz Bolivia, 9 teams remain. As we begin the show tonight Ken and Tina say they still have communication problems. Mark and Bill say their strategy is working well while Terrence and Sarah are still whining. Frat bros Andrew and Dan are pleased with themselves as Marissa and Brooke, the pink girls say everyone calls out to them, so they think they are being underestimated.
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The La Paz altitude proves to be a problem for the not-so-young racers, namely Toni, Dallas's mom, and Mark of Mark & Bill. Everyone arrives at the Simon Bolivar statue and gets a blanket for the camp out til morning when the newspaper arrives. So again we are all caught up. Nick tries to make things better with Kelly and Christy who think Starr pushed one of their sports bras out on a ledge. They seem set on being anti-Nick/Starr.Now the morning newspaper arrives. They must find an ad/clue in the classified section. Teams now must go to the hat shop and buy a hat.
From the hat shop they must choose, wooden bicycles or marching band. Caution - there is a U-Turn ahead. This will force the team named to do the other task as well. Frat boys choose the marching band. Again we have to read the clues. The clue said go on foot. Mark and Bill take a taxi to the location of the wooden bikes. They don't realize it was to be done on foot until much later.
Terence and Sarah go back to the plaza to do it on foot when they re-read the clue while in their taxi. They go back and do it on foot. Losing time but not as much as Mark and Bill lose in the end.
Mark and Bill choose the wooden bicycles.
Marissa and Brooke do the marching band task of gathering a marching band and making it to a specified location.
Terrence & Sarah on the bikes, as are Kelly & Christy, Aja & Ty, Nick & Starr. on bikes
Mark and Bill take a look at the U-turn but don't use it. They sense they are pretty far ahead of the others.
Marissa & Brooke and the Frat brothers Andrew & Dan are the only ones doing the band.
Aja and Ty ... Ty is competitive and pushing Aja something she speaks about. These two are newly dating and finding out about each other.
Marissa & Brooke caught up to the frat brothers, on the band task and decide not to u-turn anyone.
Frat boys also decline uturn although I don't know if they could since I don't think anyone was behind them on that task.
Kelly or Christy takes a bad spill on the bike. Nick and Starr consider u-turn for Kelly and Christy but decide not to use it. Probably a wise decision since Kelly & Christy are already very focused on competing with Nick & Starr. I don't think they appreciated the fact that it wasn't used on them though. No one uses the U-turn.
Road Block - one person task. Fighting Cholitas.
They must learn 6 moves and the referee must approve.
Ken and Tina choose Ken to fight. Marisa & Kelly arrive next with Mark and Bill arriving after that. This fight is pretty funny, a LOT like WWF. Ken does well, finishes his task and pleases the crowd as well. He is used to athletic events in front of crowds though isn't he.
After the fighting task teams must now go to pit stop.
Terrence and Sarah stop for some mistaken red and yellow flag, jump out of taxi but then get back in and continue on.
Sarah fights for her and Terrence, Nick fights for he and Starr.
Mark fights for Mark & Bill team but he can't get his "moves" so he has to back for more training.
Marissa has to go back for more training as well.
Dallas does the fighting for he and his mom and completes his moves the first time.
Sarah messes up her moves and goes back for more training.
Mark needs oxygen during his training.
The frat brother makes it and Ty makes it for he and Aja.
Nick and Ty succeed while the Mark is getting oygen and he still has trouble.
Mark and Bill are not youngsters. The altitude is a problem for Mark during the fight sequence.
Ken and Tina are 1st to arrive at the pit stop mat. He says are getting closer, more positive in their relationship and gives her a big kiss.
Mark attemps 3rd time and makes it. Marissa attemps 2nd time and makes it. Sarah makes it.
Christy & Kelly are last team to do it, and Kelly fights for the team.
Traffic issues as always are scattered through out the travels. Kelly makes it through the fight and head for the pit stop knowing they are last. Tony and Dallas are team number 2
Terrence and Sarah are 3rd. Marissa and Brooke 4th.
Mark and Bill, while headed to the pit stop suddenly realize they will be hit with time delay because they took a taxi to the wooden bike place, missing the "on foot" words in the clue.
Ty and Aja 5th
Nick and Starr 6th
Andrew and Dan 7th
Mark and Bill arrive 8 but are indeed hit with 30 minute penalty for taking the earlier taxi ride when they were supposed to make their way on foot to the wooden bicycles.
Christy and Kelly still in their taxi wishing they could stay in the race and see the world. They know they are team 9 but as they arrive they are told even though they are last to arrive Mark and Bill are still on penalty so they are still in the race as team number 8 on the mat.
Mark and Bill step up to the mat and are told they have been eliminated. They are really sick because they lost on a penalty from not reading the clue. They said their plan was to win on their wits and they lost by not reading carefully. They are still best friends and take it well rather than blame each other. I'm sorry they are out because I really liked them.
Next week Aja and Ty seem to have a problem with their relationship, and Starr is blown over in a sail "buggie" and puts her arm out to break the fall, after the instructor had just said not to do that and seems to have hurt herself, perhaps breaking her arm. Of course it's only a teaser so we won't know until next week.
This week we did not see much conflict between the partners, but it looks like that may change at least a little next week.
Terrence and Sarah were smart to catch themselves in their mistake (taking taxi rather than going on foot) and correct it before it became a penalty. And they were not whining as much this time.
Tina was not going on about the past "mistakes" of Ken after they came in first for the second time and won a very romantic sounding trip from Travelocity. For their sake, I hope she does learn to let it go and move forward in a positive way. He seems to really care for her and he appears to be truly remorseful for his past indiscretions. We shall see how she treats him when they don't come in first place on the mat.
Kelly & Christy are perhaps a bit too focused on Nick and Starr. It could prove to push them to do better or distract them from their goal in the remaining race. They have been a big disappointment to me as I was really wanting to root for them but their obsession with Nick & Starr and their position in tonight's race, saved only by Mark and Bill's penalty, leaves me unimpressed with their ability to stay in much longer.
And last but not least I MAY have to admit that Marissa & Brooke are right, that I've been underestimating them. But I'm not quite ready to take that plunge just yet.
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