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Author: Madrugada
Nov 26th 2009
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7:39:55 PM
The Amazing Race tends to have type three and not the others, but the threat of "evacuated" has been cited by contestants at least once -- Steve and Dave in season 4; Dave wrenched his knee badly while doing a glacier trek on the first episode, and rather than allow the show's medics the chance to declare him unfit to continue, he declined medical attention. It was, it turns out, badly enough damaged that he required surgery to repair it once he got home. Despite that, they made it several more legs before they were eliminated. Jim and Marsha during season 5 nearly missed the very first flight of the game after Jim tripped on the run from the starting line to their baggage for the first clue and tore his knee open in the fall. The airlines refused to let him board without getting medical attention first, and the time it took to get to the first aid center and back nearly made them too late to board. For the Quitting, there was Marshall and Lance, who simply stopped during a task in Egypt in season 5. In this case, there was also a knee injury involved, but they did quit rather than being removed from the Race for medical reasons. The Amazing Race also has a fourth type that most other shows don't -- the Mercy Kill. Because the production has to stay on a fairly tight schedule, when a team fall so far behind the others that's there's really no way they could catch up, the will receive a clue envelope that instead of containing the instructions for the next task tells them to go directly to the Pitstop, where they are eliminated. 2 Mercy Kills were administered in the very first season, when the team "The Guidos received one in the final episode (they were in Alaska, nearly 20 hours behind the other two finalist teams, who were already in New York heading for the Finish Line). Season 2 had ''two'' Mercy Kills among 11 teams.
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