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Leafsfan:


BTS at the pitstop. Source:https://twitter.com/mlysakow

Leafsfan:
Ousted 'Amazing Race Canada' mother-son duo: 'We were built for this show'
Tuesday’s eliminated Amazing Race Canada contestants Nicole and Cormac Foster had a split-second moment to decide who would do that night’s biathlon test. Nicole quickly jumped at the chance to compete in the Roadblock challenge, and it proved to be the frontrunners’ undoing.

In a picturesque Yukon-setting, the Winnipeg mother had to ride a mountain bike around a kilometre-long trail before picking up a rifle to shoot at a set of five circular targets. The team seemed in pretty good shape coming off successful challenges in Hong Kong the weeks before and building a campsite earlier in the episode.

But Nicole completely cracked under the pressure, with her son Cormac watching haplessly as other teams passed them by en route to the next round.

“We were built for this show,” Nicole says in a phone interview the following day. “We were doing well and one decision cut that... We never thought we’d hear (host) Jon (Montgomery) say, ‘You’ve been eliminated.’”

After deciding that Nicole would be the one to complete the biathlon, the mother-and-son team don’t wonder what could have been if Cormac had done the challenge himself.

“We have no idea what would have happened... but it changed the game for us,” Nicole says. Still, she added, it allowed her to display her never-quit spirit for her son – and the rest of Canada. “Finish what you start... run to the mat every time.”

On the episode, viewers watched as Nicole repeatedly tried – and failed 21 times – to complete the test, missing the targets in heartbreaking fashion.

The pair were there for almost four hours after the last Amazing Race duo had completed the challenge.

“I said to Cormac, ‘What happens if it gets dark?’” Nicole recalls. “He said they’d turn on the lights... (The crew) let us run our race.”

The reality show has been popular in their household for 13 years and became something that they dreamed about appearing on.

“We always said if the show came to Canada, we’d be on it,” Cormac says. And if there’s an Amazing Race All-Stars, they’ll jump at the chance to be on that too.

“If they called us tonight, I’d go tomorrow,” Cormac adds.

Although it seems there are other competitors (Sukhi and Jinder and Rex and Bob come to mind) who were weaker, Nicole says all the teams have their strengths.

“Bob and Rex play the game with their minds, you saw that in Hong Kong,” Cormac adds, describing one of the series’ weak links. “But they have world experience and knowledge.”

Source:http://www.torontosun.com/2014/08/06/ousted-amazing-race-canada-mother-son-duo-we-were-built-for-this-show

Bookworm:

--- Quote from: Leafsfan on August 06, 2014, 08:07:26 PM ---“We always said if the show came to Canada, we’d be on it,” Cormac says. And if there’s an Amazing Race All-Stars, they’ll jump at the chance to be on that too.

“If they called us tonight, I’d go tomorrow,” Cormac adds.

--- End quote ---
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Leafsfan:
Amazing Race Canada season two: Exit interviews
The team consisting of Winnipeggers Cormac and Nicole Foster was the fourth to be eliminated from the fifth leg of The Amazing Race Canada’s second season Tuesday night after a non-elimination week. All remaining teams started off on a level playing field after flying 12,000km from Macau to The Yukon on the same flight, and the mother and son pair did well at the Detour, where they had to build a campsite down to the last detail. But it was at the Roadblock that they stumbled, with mother Nicole needing 22 attempts to shoot out five targets 50m away. Each failed attempt meant rounding a tough one-kilometre course on mountain bike, leaving Nicole still determined but exhausted by the time she was able to complete the task. MSN Canada caught up with Cormac and Nicole to discuss their time on the show.

Cormac, how did you feel about Mickey and Pete hitting on your mom at the Detour?

Cormac Foster: Oh, that was hilarious. That was happening all throughout the race. That’s just the first time that you see it, and I had to fend off those guys quite a few times. It was pretty fun, though. They’re pretty good guys.

Nicole Foster: It was kind of cool watching Cormac protecting his mom.

Nicole, how did you feel going into the Roadblock?

NF: I believe I can do anything, and so I believed I’d be able to get those targets. The biking was no problem, right? I had no idea the targets would be so difficult to get.

CF: And, see, I’m the one with the steady hand…

NF: The joke in our house is that he should be a surgeon, he has such steady hands. And if we’d just read the question…

CF: The question read ‘Who has steady hands?’ For some reason – I can’t tell you why – we didn’t answer the question.

Nicole, how long were you at that Roadblock?

NF: You know, Cormac is the best one to answer that because I had no concept of time.

CF: I was left standing there looking at my watch frequently. We were there two hours with the other teams, and then Mickey and Pete left and we were there for almost four hours after they left.


NF: All I know is the camera on my bike stopped filming, and I knew at that point that I had been there for a very long time. I outlasted the camera.

Where does that sense of never giving up come from?

NF: You know, I was raised by a single mom myself, and she demonstrated to me a never-quit experience and was a very strong, independent woman, and I have that as well. My whole life I have said ‘you can do anything, don’t give up,’ and I’ve tried to instill that in Cormac.

But the biathlon challenge truly gave me an opportunity to demonstrate it. So as a parent you can say lots of things, but to be able to show him that I was not going to quit, I thought, ‘This is your opportunity. Your actions speak way louder than your words.’ And we weren’t going to take a penalty. We didn’t come to the race to take a penalty, and we were going to finish what we started.

#NevergiveupNicole was trending on Twitter last night. What do you think about that?

CF: It’s amazing to see how much we – and especially my mom – have inspired Canada. The support that we have from the Canadian fans…

NF: Yeah, I didn’t expect that at all. I didn’t expect this outpouring from all of Canada and actually the world. We got a message from Indonesia just now.

I thought, ‘Oh, he’s doing this with his mom. It’s cute, right?’ But I’m so proud to be Canadian; proud of Canadians for all the support they’ve given us. We want to be an inspiration to people, and whatever we can do to spread some positivity and promote family and communication and positive relationships, we’re all for it.

So what is next for you two? How has the Amazing Race Canada affected your lives ongoing?

NF: Life is not going to be the same at all. We’re looking for the next adventure. I’m definitely looking to pursue some passions that I have, whether it be in media or television. I’ve always wanted to pursue that but have never been able to.

CF: Working in tourism in Canada, anything like that.

NF: Anything that we can do to travel. And television, we want to get into. Really just being an inspiration, a motivation to people around their relationships and their families. I don’t want to go back to the norm. We’re trying to find the next thing to do because we want to keep that going. We realize life is much too short to just be okay with life. We want to really have fun in life and explore the world and do that together.

Source:http://entertainment.ca.msn.com/tv/amazing-race-canada-season-two-exit-interviews-2

Leafsfan:
MORE FROM THE MAT: EPISODE 5 OF ‘THE AMAZING RACE CANADA’
Caution: Spoilers Ahead!

Being on “The Amazing Race Canada” was a dream come true for mother and son team Cormac and Nicole Foster, but that dream came to a heartbreaking end in the Yukon after Nicole took several hours to complete a grueling biathlon challenge.

But the self-described “mama bear” from Winnipeg, Man., who was 19 years old when she became pregnant with Cormac and raised him as a single mom, knew she had to keep going for her son.

“I’ve always taught him not to give up on anything but me going around that track as many times as I did, I just kept thinking, ‘Listen, you’re his example and you’re the example to anyone watching – you just don’t give up,’” says Nicole.

“This is heartbreaking for me because I really felt like I was letting Cormac down because all we had talked about is, ‘We are winning this race.’”

But 19-year-old Cormac, an engineering student at the University of Manitoba, says that wasn’t the case.

“She didn’t let me down at all. The fact that she actually finished the challenge was amazing.”

Even though they knew what the outcome would be once they arrived at the Pit Stop, Nicole admits it was still a shock to hear host Jon Montgomery tell them they had been eliminated. 

“It was like a shot in the heart,” says Nicole. “In that moment I felt personally like I killed our dream.”

“I knew we were out,” adds Cormac. “But there was always this speck of hope, like maybe something could’ve happened. But when he said those words it was just like the dagger that finished it.” 

Cormac says in hindsight he should’ve done the Roadblock challenge.
 
“I suspected that it might be biathlon (after reading the clue) yet for some reason I was saying, ‘Mom, can you shoot?’ We hesitated but I should’ve done that.”

Cormac and Nicole were huge fans of the first season of “The Amazing Race Canada” and have also been watching the U.S. version for the past 13 years, even making up their own challenges and playing at home.

But even though their dream to win didn’t materialize, the mother and son team say running the “Race” together was the experience of a lifetime.

“It was really interesting for me as a mom to see my son in a mature light, a very different light outside of just being my son. He’s always been my  little boy and I was able to see this mature adult making decisions, carrying my backpack when we had to run far. I thought, ‘I really like this guy.’”

“It was the best experience of my life,” adds Cormac.

While the team has many highlights from the “Race,” Nicole says skydiving on the first leg in Victoria was the moment she was most proud of herself.

“No matter what kind of emotional meltdown I had right before I got in the plane, I was able to pull it off and one of the reasons was because I kept saying to myself, ‘Cormac is on the ground there waiting for you. Do not disappoint him.’”

Cormac says bungee jumping in Macau, China, was his favourite moment.

“That was unreal. That in itself was the highlight of the Race for me.”

Source:http://www.ctv.ca/TheAmazingRaceCanada/Articles/Season-Two/Week5_eliminee_article.aspx?cid=snipe

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