Internet Couple Are Booted

After a strong showing last week, the oldest team participating in "The Amazing Race" was eliminated.

Up until the bitter end, the widow and widower who met on the Internet, tried to stay supportive of each other and on The Early Show they tell co-anchor Harry Smith they are just very happy.

"I was just thrilled to be there," Joyce Nicolo says. "Our goal was not to be the first out. We weren't. We weren't the second out. We weren't the third out. It was gravy. We were having a great time. We were competing, doing physical things. I went off the side of a mountain on a glider. I mean it was fabulous."

The team did pretty well carrying slippery raw meat and getting on a zip line; all along, they were supportive of each other.

About Nicolo, Barron says, "She was so fast over that zip line, that I knew I'd better get over it quick."

There were, of course, challenging moments. Nicolo, in particular, had a rough way to end her race. She had to eat over two pounds of caviar to get to her pit-stop clue.

"It was awful," she says. "I was like throwing up all over Russia. I felt like it anyway."

Their demise started on their way from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to St. Petersburg, Russia. The couple was put on an early flight, but the seats were only business-class. The rules of the race say you are not permitted to use a business-class ticket so they had to take a later flight.

Bob Barron explains, "We were trying to get on the best flight, of course. We thought we had tickets for the right flight, and we got information from the ticket agency. Then we went to actually buy the tickets and the ticket agent told us they were business-class, not economy-class, which threw us back behind."

Nicolo adds "We had to give in those tickets and scramble to get other coach tickets."

But they are not complaining, Barron says they had already had an upgrade on their first flight to Madrid, Spain.

"We flew first-class," Nicolo says, "That's OK, as long as you are paying coach prices for first-class, you can get first-class. But on the plane to France, on Air France, they would not discount them for us. I mean, we were like begging, discount them, please."

Barron adds they also did quite some begging in Buenos Aires, but to no avail.

The two say they are very grateful for having been able to participate in the race and say the experience confirms that they are good for one another.

Barron says, "We wouldn't have found each other, except for the Internet. Worked out great for us."

And Nicolo adds, "We're so happy. We really are."