The Amazing Race Season 38 Episode 09 Description
Romania → Greece
I’m Not a Big Fan of Olives
Locations
Flight: Bucharest → Athens, Greece
Athens (Pnyka Hill – National Observatory of Athens)
Athens (Acropolis of Athens)
Athens (Klafthmonos Square & Monastiraki Square or Ariana Olives)
Athens (Hill of Muses)
Athens (Dora Stratou Theatre)
Athens (Kotzia Square)
Episode summary
At the start of this leg, teams were instructed to fly to Athens, Greece. Once there, teams had to travel to Pnyka Hill, where Phil Keoghan surprised them with a Live U-Turn Vote. After the vote, teams had to search the Acropolis for a man with an Amazing Race flag and their next clue. This leg’s Detour was a choice between Music in the Air or Olives Everywhere. In Music in the Air, teams had to bring a crank-operated piano called a laterna to Monastiraki Square and earn ten euros from passersby to receive their next clue. In Olives Everywhere, teams had to sample ten varieties of olives and then correctly identify them to receive their next clue.
After the Detour, teams had to roll a boulder up the Hill of Muses to Sisyphus, who had their next clue sending them to the Dora Stratou Theatre. In this leg’s Roadblock, one team member had to memorize and recite the 24 lowercase letters of the Greek alphabet before receiving their next clue, which directed them to the Pit Stop: Kotzia Square.
Teams encountered a Live U-Turn Vote. As a penalty for finishing last in the previous leg, Joseph and Adam received a penality vote. Each team voted for two teams, with the top two vote recipiants intended to be U-Turned. Tucker and Eric received a majority of votes with Jas and Jag and Kyland and Taylor tied for second place. A revote was held between the two tied teams. As the vote was deadlocked following the revote, three teams were U-Turned instead of two. The teams’ votes were as follows:
| Team | Vote | Revote | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph & Adam | Tucker & Eric | Jack & Chelsie | Kyland & Taylor |
| Tucker & Eric | Kyland & Taylor | Jas & Jag | Kyland & Taylor |
| Jack & Chelsie | Kyland & Taylor | Jas & Jag | Jas & Jag |
| Jas & Jag | Kyland & Taylor | Tucker & Eric | Kyland & Taylor |
| Izzy & Paige | Tucker & Eric | Jas & Jag | Jas & Jag |
| Kyland & Taylor | Tucker & Eric | Izzy & Paige | Jas & Jag |
| Penalty Vote | Joseph & Adam | — | |
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The Amazing Race Show Description
The Amazing Race is an American adventure reality game show in which 11 or 12 teams of two race around the world (except the Family edition which featured 10 teams of four). The race is split into legs, with each leg requiring teams to deduce clues, navigate themselves in foreign areas, interact with locals, perform physical and mental challenges, and travel by airplane, boat, taxi, and other public transportation options on a limited budget provided by the show. Teams are progressively eliminated at the end of most legs, while the first team to arrive at the end of the final leg wins the grand prize of US$1 million. As the original version of the Amazing Race franchise, the CBS program has been running since September 2001. Numerous international versions have been developed following the same core structure, while the American version is also broadcast to several other countries.
The show was created by Elise Doganieri and Bertram van Munster, who, along with Jonathan Littman, serve as executive producers. The show is produced by Earthview Inc. (headed by Doganieri and van Munster), Jerry Bruckheimer Television for CBS Studios and ABC Signature (divisions of ViacomCBS and The Walt Disney Company, respectively). The series has been hosted by veteran New Zealand television personality Phil Keoghan since its inception.
Since the inception of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program in 2003, The Amazing Race has won it ten out of fifteen times; the show has also won other awards and commendations. Although it has moved around several prime time slots since its inception, the program has averaged about 10 million viewers per season.
The series was renewed for a 33rd season, but filming on the season was suspended in February 2020 after three episodes due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] With new COVID-19 precautions in place, the race completed filming from September to October 2021, and is set to premiere on January 5, 2022
