amazing race is now on its fourteenth season! in its premiere episode, 11 new teams will experience the adventure of travelling across the world in a race. there are several interesting pairs this season. there is margie & luke, a mother and son team with luke being a deaf person. luke is the first deaf person in the US version, but there was a deaf person in the amazing race asia season 2. there is mel & mike, father & son team with both of them being openly gay. there is also brothers who were stuntmens (mark & michael) and the first time to have 2 flight attendants in a team (christie & jodi).the race started california were teams were instructed to go to locarno switzerland. there are 2 flights, one going to zurich and another to milan. in each destination, they need to catch a train going to locarno. upon arrival at locarno, they need to sign up to a departure time the next morning. so the teams pretty much caught up with each other at this point, with departure times leaving at 15 minutes interval.
the next morning, a priest gave them a picture of their next destination. it was the verzasca dam, where they encountered a roadblock. one of the team members need to bunjee jump in the dam, which is the second highest commercial bunjee jump in the world. after finishing the roadblock, the teams need to go to interlaken where they need to transport 200 pounds of cheese down a hill.
all the tams had difficulty in this task, for the cheeses would easily roll down the hill if it falls to the ground. each block weighs approximately 50 pounds for they need to get 4 blocks to finish. after completing the task, they were instructed to go to the pit stop which was at stechelberg where they were greeted by a yodel.
topping the first leg was margie & luke and luke was happy to prove that deaf people can do amazing race. close behind was siblings / lawyers tammy & victor and third place went to the stuntmen. dating couple preston & jennifer finished last and were eliminated.
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