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TAR 21: Gary Wojnar & Will Chiola "Best Friends/Substitute Teachers"

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Best Loser:
Because Gary & Will are awesome.

kevin2012:
I don't like them and agree that they only made it this far completely on luck, nothing else.

They are by far the weakest team left and I will be astonished if they aren't the next to go.

starrynight:
Looks like this is the weaker team that is featured for their characters more than anything.  And yet I still don't really like them.  That's a problem with this season, finding a team to root for.

gigglypiggies:
 :gaah: i really want to like these guys since they are from my state...but I can't. They aren't representin us michiganians good!

bc922:
http://www.thedeadbolt.com/1003028249-the-amazing-race-exit-chat-with-gary-wojnar-and-will-chiola.html

The Amazing Race Exit Chat with Gary Wojnar and Will Chiola
by Reg Seeton

This week on The Amazing Race 21, substitute teachers and superfans Gary Wojnar and Will Chiola were eliminated from competition in Dhaka, Bangaladesh.

Although Gary and Will were in the thick of competition this week on The Amazing Race, the two “superfans” arrived at the pit-stop in last place in front of host Phil Keoghan. Despite a close finish, both Gary and Will were eliminated after their driver made a key misstep with directions.

Their elimination comes on the heels of one of the most thrilling finishes ever on The Amazing Race last week when the substitute teachers caught a break to eliminate fellow racers Caitlin and Brittany. This week, however, their breaks ran out.

Following their elimination, The Deadbolt caught up with Gary and Will to find out what really happened in Bangladesh and what it was like to run The Amazing Race.

THE DEADBOLT: It looked like you guys finally hit your stride in Bangladesh. What really happened at the end of the leg?
WILL CHIOLA: At the end of the leg in Bangladesh, we kept going. We didn’t know that they were ahead of us. What happened was that our cab driver took us to the wrong side of the river, so we had to double back. We gave him the clue and he accidentally took us to the middle part of the clue. He took us to the wrong spot, but it was our own fault.

GARY WOJNAR: The way the clue was set-up, the beginning of the clue was in paragraphs. The first part of the clue said to make your way to the pit-stop, and told you where the pit-stop was. The middle of the clue had a paragraph that read in order for you to make your way to the pit-stop, you must go to a landing on the river, take a boat across to another landing and walk to the pit-stop.

We had folded over the top part of the clue because we didn’t want the cab driver to see that part, because it was not necessary at that point. We just had to get to the landing on the river.

At one point during the race, he got out of the cab and took the clue with him. We think he unfolded the clue and showed somone the top part of it and then took us to the wrong part of the river. It was the landing that we were supposed to take the boat across to. So, that was an unfortunate error.

But what it came down to was that had I done the roadblock quicker, we’d still be in the race.

THE DEADBOLT: Being superfans, how was the race different than what you thought it would be before it all began?
WILL: It was very hard in the fact that we had to communicate with the locals. Sometimes “yes” means “no.” You ask them to take you to a certain spot and sometimes it’s like asking to go to Kmart but you’re really going to Walmart.

It was tough trying to communicate with the cab drivers in saying, “no, we need to go here, not there.” Going from point A to point B was very hard. And with the heat and lack of sleep, hunger, it all adds up.

It’s hard not to get upset and we tried to stay calm. Gary and I get upset with each other, but we’re used to it. We didn’t want to get upset with the locals. We’re in their country representing The Amazing Race and representing the United States. We wanted to leave a good impression.

GARY: Will and I made it a point that before we went on the race we’d treat the people in other countries with dignity and respect. We were representing not only ourselves on the race but America also. We wanted to leave a good impression with them. And just because they didn’t quite understand what we said was no reason at all to get angry with them.

THE DEADBOLT: The week before, when you had the close finish with Caitlin and Brittany, what were you guys thinking when your driver took the right turn at the end?
WILL: When we got the driver, we asked him how to get to the market. Then he asked the guy behind us and we thought, wait a minute, why are we taking him if he doesn’t know? We switched drivers but we knew that even though he was slower, he knew exactly where he was going. We were confident that we were going the right way and weren’t worried about where the girls were going. Every place he took us to was correct.

THE DEADBOLT: That must have been exciting.
GARY: It was so exciting because we had no idea they were behind us. When we were at the U-Turn and we U-Turned Team Georgia, we took a chance that someone was behind us. We weren’t going to go out without using every tool that was available to us. So when we were going down the road and they passed us, we were like, “Holy crap! It’s the girls!”

When they took a left and we took the right, we turned around and asked our driver if it was the right way and he shook his head yes. At that point it was either right or wrong. But that was so exciting to win that. The girls were actually about 30 seconds beind us.

WILL: We knew that if it came down to a foot-race, we’d probably lose. So, we were very lucky to get there first ahead of them.

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