Oklahoma cowboys slip to sixth place in “Amazing Race: Unfinished Business”
Oklahoma’s cowboy team of Jet and Cord McCoy finished in sixth place after the third episode of “The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business,” which aired Sunday night. Some poor navigating in Tokyo cost the cowboys some valuable time.
Leaving Sydney, the 10 teams took two different flights to Tokyo. One was a direct one and the other was a connecting flight that was supposed to land 15 minutes earlier. The connecting flight, delayed by mechanical problems, actually came in 65 minutes later. Fortunately for the McCoys, they were on the direct flight.
After getting a clue and a car at a parking garage, the teams took off for a shrine at a nearby town. That’s where the McCoys got off track, with Jet driving and Cord navigating from the back seat, and wasted a lot of time trying to find the next destination . Jet said, “We’ve been driving around and all the signs are in Japanese, causing a problem. We’re just going to continue making our way south.”
They arrived in ninth place at the shrine, where they underwent rigorous training as a Samuri warrior, including shooting a bow and arrow off of a wooden horse. That task proved easy for the McCoys.
Said Cord, “I’m from Oklahoma. I shoot bow and arrow. I feel right at home.”
At the next detour, the teams chose between two tasks – a “prayer of purification” in which they were drenched with cold water under a large waterfall or “frog of luck” in which they had to don a white underwear “diaper” and find a toy frog in a frigid mud pit while bystanders throw mud balls at them. The McCoys struggled with the “frog of luck,” and Cord said they would have fared better if they were searching for live frogs. But they went on to finish the episode in sixth place.
Zev and Justin, brothers from California, were the first to the pit stop for the second week in a row and won a trip to Costa Rica. Eliminated was the father and son team of Mel and Mike, who had a difficult time in the mud pit. The team of former NFL cheerleaders Jaime and Cara had thought they had finished last after their car clipped another car in Tokyo, damaging a side mirror to the other car. They lost a lot of time when police were called to investigate the accident.
Next week the teams travel to China.
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