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SHAWN KING’S AMAZING RACE IS OVER
It was tough for Shawn King to watch the second episode of the new season of The Amazing Race Canada on Tuesday night. That’s because even though he was surrounded by friends and family, it was the episode in which King, president and CCO of Halifax-based Extreme Group, and his wife, Jen, were eliminated from the fast-paced reality show.

An old shoulder injury reared its head as King was taking part in a surfing challenge in Tofino, B.C. for the show. He was subsequently taken to a local hospital to get checked out and forcing the couple into a tough decision.

“[Jen and I] debated every possible option,” King told Marketing the day after the episode aired on CTV. They weighed taking a penalty on the surfing challenge versus returning to the beach so Jen could complete the challenge of building a chair from driftwood.

But getting to the point where they could even make a decision about how to proceed took a long time, said King. He had been given sedatives in the hospital and it took him some time to come around, he said. “We had actually tried once to get up and go [back to the beach] and Jen had to hold me up, then I got sick and it was just a horrible scene,” said King. “So in the end, we pretty much had run out of time and we wouldn’t even have been able to make it back.”

Another consideration was the probability of King’s shoulder injury coming back later in the race. Once it dislocates, “it’s really weak, and it was inevitable that at some point it was going to catch up to me,” he said.

In the end, they decided they could not continue.

King originally injured his shoulder when he was about 19. He was weightlifting and recalls his shoulder “just popped out.”

The episode in which the injury came back was filmed in late April, but watching it on Tuesday night “sort of brought it all back.” At least King was in good company for the screening. In addition to his friends and family, he watched with some of the other teams from the show: married globetrotters Laura Takahashi and Jackie Skinner, entrepreneurial siblings Sukhi and Jinder Atwal, and occupational therapist Shahla Kara (who was eliminated, along with her teammate Nabeela Barday, in the first week’s episode).

King said he’ll watch the rest of the season. While he and Jen have a loose idea of how the race went for their competitors (and know which team won), he finds it interesting to see how the other teams ran the race. “When you’re in it, you don’t see that, you’re just so focused on your own race,” he said. “It’ll be fun to watch the experience and how it unfolded for everybody else — especially now that we know them and what they’re like.”

Any chance King would do the show again if given the opportunity? There was no hesitation before he answered, “Absolutely.”

Source:http://www.marketingmag.ca/advertising/shawn-kings-amazing-race-is-over-120013

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Amazing Race Canada: Five questions with Jen & Shawn
Last night, we watched the teams sort or fillet fish, complete a surfing challenge and build a chair out of driftwood. The journey is over for the second eliminated team, Jen and Shawn King, a married couple from Halifax, who were forced to withdraw from the Race due to an injury. We snagged a few extra web-exclusive questions with Jen and Shawn when they stopped by The Social to dish about their experience on the most exciting race around.
 
Q: What did you miss the most about home?
 
Jen King: My son and my dogs.
 
Shawn King: I didn't miss the dogs but definitely my son. Also, the normalcy of having a routine.
 
Q: You weren't allowed to bring a lot of personal items (i.e. phone, music devices, books, etc...) with you while you were participating in the race. If you could have brought any item with you, what would it have been and why?

JK: I kept thinking that I could hear my phone on me. I didn't really miss anything. Once you disconnect, it's not that bad.
 
SK: I had the same habit with my phone, but after three or four days without it, it was kind of a relief.
 
Q: Next week, the contestants are going to Hong Kong, China. If you could have picked anywhere in the world to compete in this race, where would you want to go?

JK: For me, it's the Yukon.
 
SK: I'd say Australia.
 
JK: It's so hot! You'd want to run a race there?
 
SK: For me, one of the attractions of running this race is getting to go places that you don't know you're going to go. There's places in Canada I would have liked to have seen. Hearing that they were going to Hong Kong the day after they left was a bit of a stinger. I'd love to go there. So, for me, it's just anywhere that we wouldn't get to otherwise go and the further away, the better.
 
Q: If you could listen to one song to pump you up during the Race, what would it be?

JK: “The Walker” by Fitz And The Tantrums.

Q: Imagine that you were asked to compete in the Race again, but this time, you got to choose any celebrity to be your partner. Who would you choose?

JK: Demi Moore. She was G.I. Jane. C'mon!
 
SK: Oh, I'm just thinking of who I would want to meet.
 
JK: I'm thinking of winning!
 
SK: James Hetfield [singer of Metallica].

Source:http://www.thesocial.ca/culture/television/amazing-race-canada-five-questions-with-jen-and-sh

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https://www.youtube.com/v/pEmjIqZg1vY

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Amazing Race Canada season two: Exit interviews
The team consisting of Haligonians Jen and Shawn King was the second to be eliminated from the second season of The Amazing Race Canada Tuesday night. The long-time married couple had hoped to use their winnings to contribute to their 17-year-old son’s college tuition, but they were the last team to arrive at Tofino, BC’s crab dock pit stop due to an injury sustained by Shawn at the road block. The ad exec dislocated his shoulder while attempting to surf, necessitating a trip to Tofino General Hospital and his and Jen’s withdrawal from the race. MSN Canada caught up with Jen and Shawn to discuss their tragic but exciting time on the show.

Why did you two want to be part of The Amazing Race Canada?

Jen: Why not? We’re true Canadians. We wanted to see the rest of Canada, especially where it’s expensive to travel. So we thought why not have a great adventure together and see our own backyard and hopefully do some great challenges with each other and learn from each other?

What happened on that surfboard?

Shawn: I went to catch that wave and I was counting waves. And then as I started to paddle to try my first attempt at surfing, my right shoulder dislocated on the second paddle. And so I just fell off the board and knew that I had to get help pretty quick.

How hard was it for you to drop out of the race?

Shawn:(laughs) Well, obviously we didn’t come all this way to be done after two legs. And at first it was a weird moment where we thought, ‘Well, at least we didn’t lose a challenge, and that’s why we’re out.’

But, to be honest, it was harder because we’ll never know how far we could have gone. So it was a pretty tough decision, and it took a few days for it to wear off.

What was the initial cause of that shoulder injury?

Shawn: Way back when I was nineteen I was lifting weights, not knowing what I was doing, [and] it popped out. And it’s been on again, off again ever since.

You tried to pop it back in yourself. Do you have medical training?

Shawn:(laughs) No. I’m laughing because I could have done some pretty bad damage. No, I’ve never done it before, and, to be honest, I never wanted to do it so bad as that before. I just knew that I had a limited amount of time to get it back in. Because you don’t feel it initially. It pops out, you’ve got two or three minutes where it’s just numb and there’s not a lot of pain and your muscles haven’t seized up yet. But once that kicks in, it’s game over. I was just really, really trying to put it back in, and it didn’t work.

How is the shoulder now?

Shawn: It’s good. I’ve dealt with this problem for a while. I think it’s back to strength. It’s feeling fine. It needs to be repaired, for sure, so I’ll probably get that done to make sure it never happens again.

How did your son feel about the situation?

Jen: Well, he’s seventeen so he doesn’t really tell us much about his feelings at this point. (laughs)

But he is participating. We involve him in every step. We had a viewing party in Halifax for the first episode; he was there. And we had a viewing party last night here in Toronto, and he was there with us and our friends and the other teams. So I know he’s learning from it and he’s garnering experience from it. He’s not very vocal about it yet. I’m hoping in a few years he’ll be willing to express…

Shawn: …Willing to share. (laughs)

What did he think of you applying for the race?

Jen: We told him we had applied and he said, ‘You’re not going to make it.’ And then we did make it, and he said, ‘Go win.’

Shawn: ‘You better win!’

How did it feel to take time for yourself after spending years raising your child and to do something like The Amazing Race Canada?

Jen: You know, as a couple, we run our own businesses, we run our household, and we raise or child. And a lot of that is business-like conduct between the two of us, and you don’t really have time to come back to the relationship.

So Amazing Race Canada was a great adventure for us as a pair but also a great time to reconnect with each other because we had a lot of alone time and time to really talk some things through. So it was actually a great experience in that respect.

Would you recommend the Amazing Race Canada to other people? If so then why?

Shawn: I would say definitely. It depends on your personality of course; it’s not something everyone would be into.

But why? We felt so lucky to be able to not know what was coming next, to be able to travel the country, to do things you talk about doing. It’s an amazing, amazing experience. And if you can do it, if you’ve got the personality and the type of relationship to be with someone that you can do it with, I would say why not?

We sat on the couch and talked about it for years. We actually applied for the US one at one point. The only way to get on is to audition. And we auditioned knowing that the odds of getting on were pretty slim, and here we are.

Jen: It’s more about the race, though. It’s not [so much] about the challenges as it’s about the people that you meet, the Canadians that you connect with. The racers, yes, but also the Canadians you meet in different towns. [It’s] about letting go of fears about control, not knowing what you’re doing when you wake up the next day. It’s so much more than the challenge.

Source:http://entertainment.ca.msn.com/tv/amazing-race-canada-season-two-exit-interviews-1

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Audition video:

http://www.youtube.com/v/OUcsey-Z9cU

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