Post by bbfanatik on Nov 20, 2006 12:41:56 GMT -5
After completing the breathtaking, face-forward angel dive down the Olympic Tower in Helsinki, models Tyler & James received the shocking news that the leg had not yet ended. Instead, they had to travel 1,900 miles to Kiev, Ukraine and select a Russian made car where their next clue awaited.
With the Cho brothers, Lyn & Karlyn, and Rob & Kimberly descending upon the tower, beauty queens Dustin & Kandice showed signs of trepidation, but rappelled down the building before the other Teams arrived. In the three-way race for last, single moms Lyn & Karlyn surged ahead, leaving their acrophobic alliance partners, Erwin & Godwin, behind at the tower. Karlyn later remarked, "We still have an alliance with the Cho brothers as far as sharing information, but we're all just gonna run for it right now. However it works out, that's how it works out."
At the airport, Tyler lost his cool when he realized the earliest flight to Kiev didn't depart until 8:25am the next morning, landing at 1:35pm. When James suggested that Tyler let the anger go, he sniped, "We bust our ass all day long and have nothing out of it? It pisses me off." After settling down, he and James purchased tickets for the flight along with their constant shadow from the previous leg, beauty queens Dustin & Kandice. On the models, Dustin commented, "It's kind of a love, hate thing with the boys. We can't afford to spend time with them on the race. Ultimately, we have to break away from the boys, because if we stay with them, they're going to out kick us in the end."
Arriving at the airport in third place, dating couple Rob & Kimberly, found the flight through Vienna was sold out, and had to find a different flight to Kiev via Warsaw that landed at the same time. Since the ticketing counter was closed for the evening, they booked that flight at 6:00am the next morning along with single moms Lyn & Karlyn and the Cho brothers. While the three Teams initially felt relief to be landing at the same time in Kiev as the models and beauty queens, they ultimately became very concerned when their connecting flight in Warsaw was delayed thirty minutes, putting them again in last place together.
Landing in Kiev at the scheduled 1:35pm, models Tyler & James and beauty queens Dustin & Kandice each chose a "vintage" Russian car and opened their clue instructing them to drive to an address written in Russian. The Teams needed to figure out the place they had to find was the Oster Tank School, a Ukrainian military training facility 58-miles away.
Employing a taxi to lead them, the beauty queens and models arrived at the Oster Tank School in first place to encounter a Roadblock. In this Roadblock, one team member had to navigate a Russian T-64 Tank through a 1.2-mile oval-shaped obstacle course used in simulated military exercises at the Ukraine's premiere tank training school. Once they successfully completed the course, an Officer would hand them their next clue.
Thrilled with the prospect of driving a real military tank, James and Dustin received instructions from the school's teachers who told them this would be very similar to driving a car. Hopping into the confining seat of the tank, James pulled the levers, hit the gas, and roared ahead of Dustin as smoke billowed from his tank. With Kandice and Tyler cheering their partners on, James maintained his lead over Dustin through the muddy, hilly course as blank artillery shells blasted the ground ahead of them. However, James conceded his lead to Dustin after stalling out on a hill allowing his blonde rival power right past him. Watching his partner fumble, a frustrated Tyler shouted, "What's James doing? He's driving like a girl!" After crossing the finish line ahead of James, an ecstatic Dustin gushed, "That was so awesome!" The two Teams opened up their next clue instructing them to drive 43 miles back to Kiev and navigate their way through the city to find an apartment building. Once there, they would have to knock on apartment number 33 to receive their next clue.
Driving away from the tank school together, Tyler & James and Dustin & Kandice crossed paths with dating couple Rob & Kimberly who just arrived. An incredulous Dustin asked Kandice, "Why does it look like they're totally telling Rob and Kim where to go? Why would they do that?" After Kandice replied it was because the two Teams were friends, Dustin quipped, "We don't have any friends." When James admitted he would have directed the Cho brothers or Lyn & Karlyn the wrong way, Tyler noted, "The so-called genius Cho brothers still haven't made it out here which just goes to show you book smarts doesn't get you where you think it will on this Race."
As the Cho brothers and Lyn & Karlyn wandered lost through the Ukrainian countryside, an aggressive Kimberly took controls of the tank while Rob watched in amazement. Later he commented, "I think that Kimberly is finding out that she is superhuman creature from outer space. She is just wowing me left and right."
Finally arriving at the tank school together in last place, Godwin and Lyn took to the tanks for their Teams. Lyn, flinching at the artillery being fired, struggled at one point as her tank stalled out while Godwin powered through to the finish line. However, after learning they had to return to Kiev, the direction impaired Cho brothers opted to forfeit Godwin's well-earned advantage over Lyn & Karlyn choosing to travel back to the city with them instead. Erwin remarked, "Some people might see this as a risk, but at the same time if we work together maybe we won't get lost. We'll get to the Route Marker quicker." Seeing the brothers waiting, Karlyn wondered, "Who knows why they wait for us? I wouldn't expect them to."
As dating couple Rob & Kimberly suffered through car trouble that didn't affect their third place standing, beauty queens Dustin & Kandice and models Tyler & James showed up at apartment 33 to find a Detour, having to choose between Make the Music and Find the Music. In Make the Music, Teams needed to travel three miles to a hip hop club and join Kiev's underground rap movement. Working together, they had to write and perform a rap song that incorporated the names of the countries they have visited on the Race. Their judge would be Kiev's top rap artist, and once he approved their show, he would give them the next clue. In Find the Music, Teams traveled 2.5 miles to The National Musical academy of Ukraine. Once here, they had to search among thousand of pieces of sheet music for the piano part to Tchaikovsky's Concert Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra. When they had the music in hand, they needed to search the conservatory's 120 practice rooms for one of six pianists waiting for sheet music. Once the pianist completed playing the piece, they would hand them their next clue.
After spending almost two legs together, the beauty queens and models finally went their separate ways with their Detour decisions. Dustin & Kandice decided to showcase their writing and performing skills at the club while Tyler & James opted to search for sheet music at the conservatory. Arriving almost simultaneously at their choices, the race for first place would come down to which Team finished faster. While the beauty queens, dressed in their baggy rapper's attire, began composing some rhymes, models Tyler & James flipped through a seemingly endless stack of sheet music until they found the Tchaikovsky piece they needed. As Dustin & Kandice took to the nightclub stage amid a crowd of excited patrons, the models found one of the six pianists and listened to the Concert Fantasy that ended just moments before the beauty queens finished their performance. The two Teams opened their clue instructing them to drive two miles to the Great Patriotic War Museum, a tribute to victory in World War II and the Pit Stop for this leg.
As they still lurked outside the city limits of Kiev, brothers Erwin & Godwin's incessant need to stop and confirm directions finally became the proverbial straw that broke camel's back for Lyn & Karlyn. A frustrated Karlyn said, "I don't like to speak bad about them because I do love them so much, but Erwin just has a way of being indecisive, like he's too afraid to get lost. We need to be more independent and start making our own decisions." To that end, the single mothers chose to drive away before the brothers finished getting directions from yet another local. A glum Erwin noted, "Looks like Alabama got impatient and decided to take off on their own. We're disappointed since we've been working together for awhile. Our alliance with team Alabama is over." However, the single mom's exit strategy proved unsuccessful when the Cho brothers spotted their car and continued to follow them into the city.
After a tight race to the Great Patriotic War Museum, models Tyler & James edged out the beauty queens to step on the mat in first place, their first victory since climbing the Great Wall in China. Phil informed the excited duo they had won a trip for two from Travelocity to Dreams Puerto Vallarta Resort and Spa in Mexico. Tyler later marked, "There's nothing that feels better [than] to be back on top and knock the blondes off."
After Dustin & Kandice and Rob & Kimberly arrived at the Pit Stop in second and third place respectively, the race for last place came down to directions as both the Cho brothers and Lyn & Karlyn opted to compose and perform the rap. However, the brothers wanted to finally be independent and broke away rather than follow the single moms to the club. This proved disastrous, as they couldn't find it prompting them to switch to searching for the sheet music instead. As Lyn & Karlyn began their well-received performance, the brothers found the Concert Fantasy, now only needing someone to play it for them. When Lyn & Karlyn received kudos from the audience and the Ukrainian rap star, the brothers found the pianist and listened arm in arm to the beautiful performance.
Now only a race to the Pit Stop remained for the two former alliance members. A concerned Karlyn commented, "Hopefully, the Cho brothers are lost. I hate to say that, but that's what it's come down to." Karlyn got her wish and then some as Erwin & Godwin drove into a street that was closed off by the local government. Instead of allowing them to pass through, the officers told the brothers to shut off the engine and show them their documents. The time spent doing this ultimately cost them the race as Lyn & Karlyn ran to the mat in fourth place.
As night descended on the city, the Cho brothers got out of their sticky situation with the law to step onto the mat in last place where Phil informed the pair they had been eliminated from the race. A tearful Godwin commented, "We wanted to run the race the way we were raised. No one's perfect and we probably made a lot of mistakes, but we wanted to do it the way we thought was right. No regrets." A reflective Erwin added, "One of the surprising things for us was how deep our friendship would grow with David & Mary and Lyn & Karlyn. It was a personal thing as well as a race thing. Our goal was to play the game in a way that we felt that we could wake up the next morning and feel good about. That's what we took to the very end."
With the Cho brothers, Lyn & Karlyn, and Rob & Kimberly descending upon the tower, beauty queens Dustin & Kandice showed signs of trepidation, but rappelled down the building before the other Teams arrived. In the three-way race for last, single moms Lyn & Karlyn surged ahead, leaving their acrophobic alliance partners, Erwin & Godwin, behind at the tower. Karlyn later remarked, "We still have an alliance with the Cho brothers as far as sharing information, but we're all just gonna run for it right now. However it works out, that's how it works out."
At the airport, Tyler lost his cool when he realized the earliest flight to Kiev didn't depart until 8:25am the next morning, landing at 1:35pm. When James suggested that Tyler let the anger go, he sniped, "We bust our ass all day long and have nothing out of it? It pisses me off." After settling down, he and James purchased tickets for the flight along with their constant shadow from the previous leg, beauty queens Dustin & Kandice. On the models, Dustin commented, "It's kind of a love, hate thing with the boys. We can't afford to spend time with them on the race. Ultimately, we have to break away from the boys, because if we stay with them, they're going to out kick us in the end."
Arriving at the airport in third place, dating couple Rob & Kimberly, found the flight through Vienna was sold out, and had to find a different flight to Kiev via Warsaw that landed at the same time. Since the ticketing counter was closed for the evening, they booked that flight at 6:00am the next morning along with single moms Lyn & Karlyn and the Cho brothers. While the three Teams initially felt relief to be landing at the same time in Kiev as the models and beauty queens, they ultimately became very concerned when their connecting flight in Warsaw was delayed thirty minutes, putting them again in last place together.
Landing in Kiev at the scheduled 1:35pm, models Tyler & James and beauty queens Dustin & Kandice each chose a "vintage" Russian car and opened their clue instructing them to drive to an address written in Russian. The Teams needed to figure out the place they had to find was the Oster Tank School, a Ukrainian military training facility 58-miles away.
Employing a taxi to lead them, the beauty queens and models arrived at the Oster Tank School in first place to encounter a Roadblock. In this Roadblock, one team member had to navigate a Russian T-64 Tank through a 1.2-mile oval-shaped obstacle course used in simulated military exercises at the Ukraine's premiere tank training school. Once they successfully completed the course, an Officer would hand them their next clue.
Thrilled with the prospect of driving a real military tank, James and Dustin received instructions from the school's teachers who told them this would be very similar to driving a car. Hopping into the confining seat of the tank, James pulled the levers, hit the gas, and roared ahead of Dustin as smoke billowed from his tank. With Kandice and Tyler cheering their partners on, James maintained his lead over Dustin through the muddy, hilly course as blank artillery shells blasted the ground ahead of them. However, James conceded his lead to Dustin after stalling out on a hill allowing his blonde rival power right past him. Watching his partner fumble, a frustrated Tyler shouted, "What's James doing? He's driving like a girl!" After crossing the finish line ahead of James, an ecstatic Dustin gushed, "That was so awesome!" The two Teams opened up their next clue instructing them to drive 43 miles back to Kiev and navigate their way through the city to find an apartment building. Once there, they would have to knock on apartment number 33 to receive their next clue.
Driving away from the tank school together, Tyler & James and Dustin & Kandice crossed paths with dating couple Rob & Kimberly who just arrived. An incredulous Dustin asked Kandice, "Why does it look like they're totally telling Rob and Kim where to go? Why would they do that?" After Kandice replied it was because the two Teams were friends, Dustin quipped, "We don't have any friends." When James admitted he would have directed the Cho brothers or Lyn & Karlyn the wrong way, Tyler noted, "The so-called genius Cho brothers still haven't made it out here which just goes to show you book smarts doesn't get you where you think it will on this Race."
As the Cho brothers and Lyn & Karlyn wandered lost through the Ukrainian countryside, an aggressive Kimberly took controls of the tank while Rob watched in amazement. Later he commented, "I think that Kimberly is finding out that she is superhuman creature from outer space. She is just wowing me left and right."
Finally arriving at the tank school together in last place, Godwin and Lyn took to the tanks for their Teams. Lyn, flinching at the artillery being fired, struggled at one point as her tank stalled out while Godwin powered through to the finish line. However, after learning they had to return to Kiev, the direction impaired Cho brothers opted to forfeit Godwin's well-earned advantage over Lyn & Karlyn choosing to travel back to the city with them instead. Erwin remarked, "Some people might see this as a risk, but at the same time if we work together maybe we won't get lost. We'll get to the Route Marker quicker." Seeing the brothers waiting, Karlyn wondered, "Who knows why they wait for us? I wouldn't expect them to."
As dating couple Rob & Kimberly suffered through car trouble that didn't affect their third place standing, beauty queens Dustin & Kandice and models Tyler & James showed up at apartment 33 to find a Detour, having to choose between Make the Music and Find the Music. In Make the Music, Teams needed to travel three miles to a hip hop club and join Kiev's underground rap movement. Working together, they had to write and perform a rap song that incorporated the names of the countries they have visited on the Race. Their judge would be Kiev's top rap artist, and once he approved their show, he would give them the next clue. In Find the Music, Teams traveled 2.5 miles to The National Musical academy of Ukraine. Once here, they had to search among thousand of pieces of sheet music for the piano part to Tchaikovsky's Concert Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra. When they had the music in hand, they needed to search the conservatory's 120 practice rooms for one of six pianists waiting for sheet music. Once the pianist completed playing the piece, they would hand them their next clue.
After spending almost two legs together, the beauty queens and models finally went their separate ways with their Detour decisions. Dustin & Kandice decided to showcase their writing and performing skills at the club while Tyler & James opted to search for sheet music at the conservatory. Arriving almost simultaneously at their choices, the race for first place would come down to which Team finished faster. While the beauty queens, dressed in their baggy rapper's attire, began composing some rhymes, models Tyler & James flipped through a seemingly endless stack of sheet music until they found the Tchaikovsky piece they needed. As Dustin & Kandice took to the nightclub stage amid a crowd of excited patrons, the models found one of the six pianists and listened to the Concert Fantasy that ended just moments before the beauty queens finished their performance. The two Teams opened their clue instructing them to drive two miles to the Great Patriotic War Museum, a tribute to victory in World War II and the Pit Stop for this leg.
As they still lurked outside the city limits of Kiev, brothers Erwin & Godwin's incessant need to stop and confirm directions finally became the proverbial straw that broke camel's back for Lyn & Karlyn. A frustrated Karlyn said, "I don't like to speak bad about them because I do love them so much, but Erwin just has a way of being indecisive, like he's too afraid to get lost. We need to be more independent and start making our own decisions." To that end, the single mothers chose to drive away before the brothers finished getting directions from yet another local. A glum Erwin noted, "Looks like Alabama got impatient and decided to take off on their own. We're disappointed since we've been working together for awhile. Our alliance with team Alabama is over." However, the single mom's exit strategy proved unsuccessful when the Cho brothers spotted their car and continued to follow them into the city.
After a tight race to the Great Patriotic War Museum, models Tyler & James edged out the beauty queens to step on the mat in first place, their first victory since climbing the Great Wall in China. Phil informed the excited duo they had won a trip for two from Travelocity to Dreams Puerto Vallarta Resort and Spa in Mexico. Tyler later marked, "There's nothing that feels better [than] to be back on top and knock the blondes off."
After Dustin & Kandice and Rob & Kimberly arrived at the Pit Stop in second and third place respectively, the race for last place came down to directions as both the Cho brothers and Lyn & Karlyn opted to compose and perform the rap. However, the brothers wanted to finally be independent and broke away rather than follow the single moms to the club. This proved disastrous, as they couldn't find it prompting them to switch to searching for the sheet music instead. As Lyn & Karlyn began their well-received performance, the brothers found the Concert Fantasy, now only needing someone to play it for them. When Lyn & Karlyn received kudos from the audience and the Ukrainian rap star, the brothers found the pianist and listened arm in arm to the beautiful performance.
Now only a race to the Pit Stop remained for the two former alliance members. A concerned Karlyn commented, "Hopefully, the Cho brothers are lost. I hate to say that, but that's what it's come down to." Karlyn got her wish and then some as Erwin & Godwin drove into a street that was closed off by the local government. Instead of allowing them to pass through, the officers told the brothers to shut off the engine and show them their documents. The time spent doing this ultimately cost them the race as Lyn & Karlyn ran to the mat in fourth place.
As night descended on the city, the Cho brothers got out of their sticky situation with the law to step onto the mat in last place where Phil informed the pair they had been eliminated from the race. A tearful Godwin commented, "We wanted to run the race the way we were raised. No one's perfect and we probably made a lot of mistakes, but we wanted to do it the way we thought was right. No regrets." A reflective Erwin added, "One of the surprising things for us was how deep our friendship would grow with David & Mary and Lyn & Karlyn. It was a personal thing as well as a race thing. Our goal was to play the game in a way that we felt that we could wake up the next morning and feel good about. That's what we took to the very end."