Daters Meghan and Cheyne had hoped to maintain their initial advantage throughout the seventh leg of "The Amazing Race 15" but with a long wait for a flight from Dubai, United Arab Emirates to Amsterdam in The Netherlands, the field would be equalized.
Brothers Sam and Dan took advantage of the wait at Dubai's airport to come out as gay while Harlem Globetrotters Flight Time and Big Easy regaled the remaining racers with the account of how Mika's refusal to gow down a water slide got her team with Canaan eliminated last leg.
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Meghan and Cheyne did briefly hold the lead on arrival in Amsterdam but it would be father/son duo Gary and Matt to take the lead on the Roadblock. The task involved climbing the stairs of a large tower and correctly counting the number of bells In the structure.
Matt was the first to correctly count the number 62 with Sam of the brother's team next in line. Sam gave away the answer to allies / poker players Maria and Tiffany in hopes of keeping what he saw as a weaker team in the game.
Sam and Dan would be the first to leave the Roadblock site though, following locals to the Vierhuzen de Marne site to uncover the Detour clue. The brothers donned silly male and female local costumes for the Detour tasks of biking across town and playing "farmers golf" with golf clubs attached to wooden shoes.
With closest competitors Meghan and Cheyne bogged down due to Meghan's lack of golf skills, Sam and Dan powered through the Detour all but unopposed to win the seventh leg. Meghan and Cheyne finished in second place while Flight Time and Big Easy too k advantage of their Globetrotters dancing experience to complete a "farmers dance" Detour for third place. Father/son Gary and Matt switched from the dance to golf for fourth.
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Married couple Brian and Ericka stalled out on the Roadblock task though with Ericka continually miscounting the number of bells. The spouses made mistakes throughout the seventh leg in fact, falling to last place when Brian couldn't figure out how to start the provided luxury car.
After Ericka figured out the Roadblock bell count on her 4th attempt, the team would all but fall apart on the Detour, failing to correctly read that they needed to ride provided bikes from the clue box to the dancing Detour. The pair was forced to wait out a 30 minute penalty at the Pit Stop as a result.
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While Brian and Ericka made the numerous tactical errors throughout leg seven, it was the simple physical weakness of poker players Maria and Tiffany that doomed the only all-female team to elimination.
Maria and Tiffany were boxed into a no-win scenario, neither strong enough to complete holes for the "farmers golf" in the needed eight shots nor strong enough wielding a mallet to ring the bell atop a carnival-style striker in advance of the "farmers dance." Finding no viable way to complete either Detour task, Maria and Tiffany resigned from "The Amazing Race 15" before host Phil Keoghan could pronounce the formal elimination.______________________Labels: recaplette, tar 15.7, the amazing race 15
