"The Amazing Race" leaders share the wealth
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Border guards J.J, and Art won $5,000 each for being first to reach the pit stop for this leg. At the end of the episode, they told the last-place team, Kentucky friends Bopper and Mark , that they would give half their winnings to Mark to help cover his daughter's health care costs.
And the good news kept coming. Host Phil Keoghan told the Kentucky team that this was a non-elimination leg of the race, which means they would be allowed to continue though they would be saddled with an extra task in next week's leg of the race.
This is good news for the audience as well since the country guys' good humor and high spirits tend to enliven every episode.
The two fell behind in the start of the leg by going straight to the airport rather than buying their tickets at the travel agency in town. By the time, they made the trip back to the agency, the early flight was full and they had to take a later plane, arriving in Turin more than an hour after the other eight teams.
Though they gamely competed in the tasks - rappelling down the side of a building, finding a Tin Lizzie in an auto museum and cleaning a park statue - they never recovered the lost time.
What stood out this episode was all the squabbling between Iraq vet Dave and his wife, Rachel, and the salami-stand meltdown of the other Rachel, of the "Big Brother" team. I am not a fan of either member of the "Big Brother" duo, but I have to admit Brandon showed patience with his loopy partner this episode.
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