Oklahoman among ‘Amazing Race’ leaders
Flight attendants Christie Volkmer and Jodi Wincheski took a non-scheduled detour during Sunday’s episode of “The Amazing Race” (March 8 on CBS).
And their stop at an internet cafe in Romania to plan their route to Siberia helped catapult them from sixth place to first in Leg 4 of the race. They will receive motorcycles for their efforts in reaching the pit stop first.
Along the way, they stacked wood in Krasnoyarsk (the Russian man with the next clue said “You cute girls … best”), passed on issuing a Blind U-Turn (although they were suspected of doing so) and stopped at the Bobrovy Log Park for a road block challenge.
Volkmer, a Choctaw native, accepted the challenge of doing a lap on a bobsled in under four minutes while looking for seven letters scattered around the track. Her lap took four minutes exactly (that was acceptable) but it took her a bit longer to arrange the letters to spell the name of a Russian author (Chekhov) to get the next clue.
“I wanted to look brilliant and I didn’t,” Volkmer said.
Nevertheless, Volkmer and Wincheski, who barely avoided elimination in the first two legs of the race, were Team No. 1 at the pit stop — the Krasnoyarsk Theater of Musical Comedy.
“We don’t want to get low and we don’t want to get too comfortable,” Volkmer said. “We’ve been to the very top and down to the very bottom. But we feel pretty good about being in first place.”
Seven teams remain in the race, which heads to Novosibirsk, Russia, for Leg 5. Episode five airing at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 15, is titled “She’s a Little Scared of Stick, But I Think She’ll Be OK!”
–Penny TV
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