amazing race season 20 episode 9

5 teams depart a tanzania national park before they leave boppers leg is looked at and they are cleared to continue in the race but his ankle is twisted and knee. the first stop is cochin india and to sacred heart college and the next clue. rachel/dave know that art/jj are upset at them. they get a flight leaving 740am art/jj are still unhappy with rachel/dave. bopper/mark call art/jj babbies. brendon/rachel are over the u-turn and end up on the same flight with the lead teams. vanessa/ralph are still making fun of brendon/rachel the flight arrives at 605am but find a quicker one giving them, a jump from last to first going via nairobi instead of dar es salam. teams are supprised that vanessa/ralph got a different flight boppers still struggling with injury rachel/dave are on the lead bus with art/jj brendon/rachel are on the 2nd vanessa/ralph are on the 3rd bopper/mark are behind. mark is struggling with motion sickness. the next clue is a roadblock of doing a bollywood dancing routine which is quite complicated and in the heat. rachel takes the roadblock for rachel/dave. art/jj argue over the dancing task jj takes it rachel takes it for brendon/rachel and vanessa takes the roadblock. bopper/mark are quite behind at this point. marks motion sickness is not helping. teams are discouraged by how many steps there are to the dance. mark has to do the roadblock due to boppers injury. jj fails his first attempt and does bad. rachel of rachel/dave gets it first attempt getting a clue sending them to an indian coffee house. mark is struggling with the heat. rachel of brendon/rachel fails the first time as does vanessa. the next clue at the coffee house is the detour “cricket” requires each team member to hit a cricket ball to the boundary. “clutch it” requires teams to learn rickshaw driving skills through a trainign course. rachel/dave pick clutch it despite dave wanting to do cricket. the other teams struggle with the dancing and have a few failed attempts teams make fun of rachels failed attempts. dave fails the first time on the rickshaw but gets it the 2nd time. mark fails and is on the verge of passing out while the other teams have trouble still. vanessa gets it on her 3rd attempt putting them 2nd while other teams consider giving up as mark is on the verge of passing out. rachel gets it in 3rd leaving the guys behind. jj gets it on his 4th attempt putting them ahead of bopper/mark. mark fails again but does ok. meanwhile rachel/dave finish the detour before anyone else gets the clue sending them to the pitstop bolgatty pallace. vanessa/ralph do the rickshaw task while brendon/rachel and art/jj choose cricket. the cricket is tricky just hitting the ball. mark is on the verge of collapse at the dancing failing more attempts. rachel/dave finish the leg 1st and win a trip to st lucia. vanessa/ralph struggle with the rickshaw. but the cricket is hard as well brendon/rachel get 1 before art/jj with a showdown between rachel and art. bopper wants mark to take the penalty on the dancing and he wants to quit so he can stay healthy. vanessa finishes the rickshaw task. rachel thinks cricket is similar to baseball which is true but not the same. brendon/rachel finish the detour in 2nd ahead of art/jj while they are still ahead of vanessa/ralph who take a while at the rickshaw but aren’t too far behind bopper/mark are a long way behind as mark is failing the dancing. mark gets it eventually and they do ok at ther detour but its a non-elim so they are a long way back but are still in the race.

  1. rachel and dave
  2. brendon and rachel
  3. art and jj
  4. vanessa and ralph
  5. bopper and mark (non-elim) (must complete speed bump)

next time the infamous head shaving task is back and a very hard detour leads to more rivaliry between brendon/rachel and vanessa/ralph.

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