Oklahoma cowboys second after latest episode of “Amazing Race.”
After winning last week’s leg, Oklahoma cowboys Jet and Cord McCoy finished in second place in the episode of “The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business” that aired Sunday night.
CBS is airing “The Academy of Country Music Awards” next Sunday so there won’t be an episode. The series returns April 10.
Early in the episode, Jet, 31, of Tupelo, discussed the sacrifices his family was making during the competition that was taped late last year.
“My family is making as big a sacrifice as I am to be here,” he said. “My wife is staying home and taking care of the 2-year-old girl and the ranch. Same as Court. So it’s an added incentive we don’t want to go away empty-handed.”
From a tea tasting ceremony, the teams all caught the same 900-mile flight to Kolkata, India, where a bunch of cab drivers raced them to town hall for their next clue. In a humorous segment, the McCoys’ cab is shown racing past several other competitors’ cabs. “The guy has got some nerve,” Cord said.
Town hall didn’t open until 10 a.m. so the teams all camped on the street waiting for instructions to their next destination, a hall for another tea tasting. This time one team member had to find, from a table that holds hundreds of tea cups, the one that matches the tea they tasted back in China. When that happened, the teams got a battle of Snapple with the next clue on the inside of the bottle cap.
The McCoys were second after the roadblock, heading into the week’s detour with challenges of either Hindu art or Bengali literature. In Hindu art, teams had to paint and decorate a large statue of an elephant god, matching a model. In the literature challenge, the teams loaded eight stacks of books into a school bicycle cart and directed the driver to the school.
While five teams picked the art project, the McCoys, the father and daughter team of Gary and Malloy, and Zev and Justin delivered the books to the school.
The episode wrapped up with a race to the pit stop at the Fountain of Joy. Gary and Mallory finished first and won a special Indian feast with Bollywood dancers and $1 million in rupees, valued at more than $22,000 American. The McCoys were runner-up.
Margie and her deaf son Luke was eliminated for finishing in last place primarily because Luke stumbled miserably at the tea tasting challenge. “Sorry,” Luke signed to his mother. “I don’t hold him responsible for us being eliminated,” Margie said.
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