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apskip:
That's not what I understand. See the book "Circumnavigating the Globe: Amazing Race 10-14 and Amazing Race Asia 1-3" for the details. Preston and Jennifer got behind in the taxi from Milan - Malpensa airport to the train to Switzerland, which intersection happened north of Milan and south of the border. They did not get on the same train as the other Milan-landing teams and fell behind in episode 1. Out of the cheese task at Kleine Rugge Wiese they recovered to 10th place, but in Stechelberg their auditory skills were lacking and they went the wrong way in the parking lot. Christie/Jodi arrived at the pit stop just before they did.

redskevin88:

--- Quote from: apskip on January 21, 2012, 08:14:51 AM ---That's not what I understand. See the book "Circumnavigating the Globe: Amazing Race 10-14 and Amazing Race Asia 1-3" for the details. Preston and Jennifer got behind in the bus from Milan - Malpensa airport to the train to Switzerland, which intersection happened north of Milan and south of the border. They did not get on the same train as the other Milan-landing teams and fell behind in episode 1. Out of the cheese task at Kleine Rugge Wiese they recovered to 10th place, but in Stechelberg their auditory skills were lacking and they went the wrong way in the parking lot. Steve/Linda arrived at the pit stop just before they did.

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It was both apskip


--- Quote ---Reality TV World: What led to you guys missing that first train in Milan?

Preston: [When we landed in Milan], we came off the plane and we were in first place. We got the first taxi and we were good to go.

Jennifer: We were first place for a long time.

Preston: Our taxi driver didn't speak any English, and we were telling him "Look, you need to take this specific exit, please don't go this way." We were like "No autostrado, no autostrado," whatever.

Anyway foreshadowing -- we should've known it was going to be a bad day -- but our taxi driver and one other team's were the only ones who didn't have a speedpass going through the tolls, and when we came out of there he missed the exit and he takes us into rush hour and we're stuck in traffic for maybe 45 minutes or an hour. Then we go to the wrong customs portion before we get to the train station and that takes another hour or hour-and-a-half. By the time we finally get to the train station we just missed the second train by like 20 minutes.
 
Reality TV World: About how far away was the train station from the airport?

Preston: Maybe an hour at the most?

Jennifer: About an hour [to an] hour-and-a-half. Of course we had to stop, so when all the other cars had speedpasses and they're just speeding on through, we lost our first place because our car had to stop and pay the toll. Then as soon as you pay the toll, that was the exit we were supposed to get off on, and all the other cars are getting off and we're like "We need to go this way, follow those cars." The [taxi driver] looks at us and is like "No," and he's like pointing up and we look up and there's this big sign [saying] that we're not supposed to take that way.

Preston: Right.

Jennifer: So we got stuck in customs for that two hours ultimately because... the  language barrier is pretty much what cost us that leg. We didn't speak his language and we're telling him to go this way and we're speaking to them in a foreign language and he kinda took his initiative and went the way he wanted to and it got us lost the first day. So thank God that [church] was just a stop and not a Pit Stop.


Reality TV World: Christie and Jodi were the last team to arrive [at the cheese challenge]. Do you know about how long after you had arrived that they got there and how much of a jump you had on them?
 
Jennifer: We had about 30-45 minutes.

Preston: Yeah, on the cheese hill?

Reality TV World: Yeah.

Preston: Well on the cheese hill we had about a 20 minute lead, and then after we got done...

Jennifer: (Interrupting) They got there as we were running off...

Preston: No, no, no, no. They were doing the cheese hill while we were doing the cheese hill.

Jennifer: See I didn't see them. I saw them running up.

Preston: They had to go back and get one more cheese after we got finished with ours. So we had a good 30 minute lead in the taxi on the way to the Pit Stop.

Reality TV World: Oh, okay. So what happened there? Did they have a quick cab? Did you have a slow one? Did you just get lost somewhere?

Preston: We still got there 35 minutes ahead of them, we just didn't have any money. None of the teams that took our flight, none of us had enough money to pay for our [taxis] at the end.

Jennifer: The important thing is Preston and I didn't spend any money during the way. The money that we spent was on transportation. We didn't eat, we spent zero dollars. So we didn't have enough money, and for our taxi we were 75 Francs short, so we get there and I'm begging the driver, who either spoke French or German I'm not sure, I'm begging him to let us go. And the other teams had already begged for money, so as we're begging for money everybody's like "No, we've already been hit up," so nobody was giving any money.

So we were begging and I finally went back to the taxi driver and he's yelling at me in this language "I need to be paid!" so I just decide, "Okay we're just gonna run." So we run to go to the Pit Stop, well we ran the wrong way, [we did] what they showed [Linda and Steve do on TV], everybody I think went that way because there were speakers going up the mountains that sounded like the yodelers, so it kinda seemed like you had to go up the mountain so that's what we all were doing.

Well we realized that it was the wrong way and we needed to go the opposite way that we were running. Preston and I got back into the little circle in town that we were running through initially and it was "Oh my God I can't believe we just went the wrong way, we're such idiots. Blah, blah blah."

Well, Jodie and Christie had just gotten out of their taxi cab and they heard that, and they're like "Hey." They started running and realized that we were running the wrong way, so then they turned around to go the other way, and then by that time it was just neck-and-neck. It was a footrace, literally a second apart, if that.
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Jimmer:
What if Leg 2 in Season 19 was only a single elimination, and Ethan and Jenna were still in the race?

Leg 3: They could probably beat Kaylani and Lisa at the temple roadblock
Leg 4: Non-Elim
Leg 5: Liz and Marie cash problems
Leg 6: Non-Elim
Leg 7: Justin and Jennifer struggled at fish delivery roadblock
Leg 8: Laurence and Zac got lost and struggled in Denmark
Leg 9: Non-Elim (However 1 non-elim must turn to an elimination and assuming Ethan and Jenna beat Bill and Cathi
Leg 10: Maybe beat Amani and Marcus after bird finding task
Leg 11: Andy and Tommy struggle to find Panama Viejo
Leg 12: Final 3

I think Ethan and Jenna could have gone far. What do you all think?

Aussie:
I doubt they would make it past Borodbur. I don't think the other teams would've helped them out and thus, they would be eliminated.

Declive:
What if Amanda and Kris have beated Ron and Cristina in Junction Mine?

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