Espisode 4
The Realty TV show Amazing Race 14 started out at the 3rd Pit Stop for the race around the world. Mel & Mike (father and son) who were the first to arrive at 10:49AM, got to depart at 10:49PM.
All teams now must travel to Krasnoyarsk, deep in the heart of Syberia, then travel by taxi to the Hydroelectric Dam where they can find their next clue.
Amanda & Kris, the young competitive couple, were the 2nd team to depart at 10:53PM. Kisha & Jen were 3rd to depart at 10:55PM. Margie & Luke (mother and son) departed 4th at 11:06PM. Mark & Michael (brothers/stuntmen) departed 5th at 11:07PM. Christi & Jodi (Flight Attendants) were 6th to leave at 11:08PM, and were clever in asking the taxi to stop at an Internet Café on the way to the airport. Since these blondes work in the travel business, they were able to log on and research possible flights. They knew exactly how to route successfully through different destinations. It turns out that these blondes are pretty and smart! They booked their flight online before any other team.
Jamie & Cara depart 7th, at 11:29PM. While Mark & Michael borrow the taxi cab drivers cellular telephone to call ahead to the airlines, the phone ends up dialing the other taxi where Jaime & Cara decide to pretend that they are airline reservationist and played a joke on the brothers!
Tammy & Victor (siblings/Lawyers) are the last team to depart at 1:30AM. The teams end up travelling on one of four possible connecting flights landing at Krasnoyarsk Airport. Each team needs to show a picture of the dam on the back of a bill to the taxi driver who says he knows where that place is and will drive them there.
Mark & Michael are leading in 1st place with Jennifer & Kisha, along with Jodi & Kristi, who all took the fastest connection flights. Everybody else got stuck back at the other airport because they missed ultimately the ideal flight, which was the earlier flight the leading teams took.
But our three leading teams get to the dam at night and find out that it doesn’t open until 8:30Am, and have to wait it out. When it finally opened, the clue said teams must now race to the church of Saint Innokenty. They then must choose to stack or construct. Stacking involves a huge pile of firewood. Construct is where they find a workshop and materials to build a set of traditional wood shutters.
The brothers chose stacking, but it turned out that they were no good at it, because it fell down and knocked down the stack of wood behind it, which meant they had to re-stack that other fire wood stack also. So the guys were discouraged and decided to screw it and leave this mess and go do the construct task. But once there, they can’t find the proper house to install the shutters, (they are not very observant), so end up waiting for two more teams to arrive (who also had their fire wood stack fall down) and together all 3 teams work together.
On the next clue, the teams find a U-Turn (one of 2 U-Turns found along the race course). A U-Turn appears at the end of a Detour. A Team can use the power of the U-Turn to slow down another team and force them to backtrack and perform the other side of the Detour. A new twist in this season’s TV realty show is that teams can now remain unknown about choosing to use a U-Turn (blind).
The new clue states that teams must take a taxi to a local amusement park, Bobrovy Log Park, and search for their next clue. Kisha & Jen are now in first place as they run to catch a taxi, with the blondes only a couple of minutes behind them.
At the park, the teams find a Roadblock, where only one member of a team must ride a bobsled, with a speed of up to 55 MPH, completing a 3-mile course in just 4 minutes or less. They must also look for 7 letters posted along the way. Upon remembering those letters, they most unscramble the letters to spell a famous Russian playwright, CHEKHOV.
Back at the U-Turn, we find our mother and son team declaring Amanda & Kris. It was actually the hearing impaired Luke who told his mother to do so, because after all, they were playing the game for a one million dollar prize!
To complete this last leg of the race and report in to Phil at the Pit Stop, teams must take a taxi to the Theater of Musical Comedy, Krasnoyarsk Theater. Christie & Jodi finished in 1st place, as the winners of this leg of the race. They both screamed and jumped for joy. The blondes each won a brand new motorcycle, a cool 650 bike, which they both smiled about.
Kisha & Jen finished right behind them as team number 2. They got lost trying to find the main entrance, and were attempting entry backstage. But overall, it looks like girl power is dominating this week’s race, despite the physical labor involved in performing the stack and/or construct tasks!
Tammy & Victor went from last place (from last week’s show), to finishing this week’s leg as team number 3. Margie & (evil) Luke finished in 4th place. Jaime & Cara finished in 5th place. Mel & Mike were team number 6. Mark & Michael finished 7th. Amanda & Kris, who were U-Turned by Luke, were the last team to arrive and have been eliminated from the race. They said that as a couple, they were able to get to know each other much better now, while racing around the world, and each said that they will remain as a couple for life.
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