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The TVClubHouse: Amazing Race ARCHIVES: Amazing Race VII: AR Teams: Uchenna & Joyce: Archive through May 11, 2005 users admin

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Essence
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01-12-2002

Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - 8:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just love this team. Loved it when Uchenna asked where was his princess after retrieving the last clue.

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - 12:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
She looks great!

I was stunned that they were only a minute or two ahead of the rest of that tight pack.. I actually ran back my recording 2-3 times in disbelief!

And another first place with no prize.. not that they are complaining..

Readonly
Member

04-16-2003

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 6:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good luck Joyce and Uchenna. I'm rooting for you all the way!!!

Calamity
Member

10-18-2001

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 2:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good Luck Uchenna & Joyce!!!

I'm crossing my fingers, wishing on a shooting star, picking up a lucky penny, and hanging a horse shoe for you two!

Kep421
Member

08-11-2001

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 2:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
All the best of Luck to my most favorite team!!!

Calamity..if you got extras could you put up a second set of lucky stuff for me please???

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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Congrats!!! As a parent of adopted kids and been on your road, I hope you find happiness which ever path you go!!
And hey to fellow Houstonians!!!!

Kep421
Member

08-11-2001

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 4:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yep that was me in my living room last night Lumbele...I didn't get to watch it until midnight...but by 12:30, I was turning handsprings down the hall!! WOO HOO!!!

I am so happy this couple won....I think they really deserved it the most as they sacrificed the most to get there...I also think they won more than money...the relationship they rebuilt is more precious and will be longer lasting than one million...and we all thought couples couldn't salvage a relationship on this show... boy did they prove us wrong!!!!!!

I wish them health and happiness...and all the children they could ever want....



Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 4:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Uchenna and Joyce Agu win seventh season of Amazing Race
Associated Press

NEW YORK — Rob and Amber who? Married couple Uchenna and Joyce Agu outraced a pair of former Survivor contestants and a former prisoner of war and his beauty queen girlfriend to win the seventh edition of CBS' The Amazing Race and the $1 million prize.

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"It's so amazing, if I can use that word," Joyce told The Associated Press while grinning and giggling at the CBS season finale party.

Uchenna, 40, and Joyce, 44, from Houston, lugged boats in London, balanced water jugs on their heads in Africa and weighed complete strangers in Turkey — among other silly and strenuous tasks — in order to reach the finish line. Unlike previous seasons of "Amazing Race," the racers didn't travel around the globe, instead they semi-circled from Long Beach, Calif., through South America, Africa, India, Europe and the Caribbean to their final destination in Miami.

Because the Agus arrived last during a non-elimination leg before the home stretch, the couple was stripped of all their belongings and cash per the reality show's nefarious rules. The Agus begged their way to the finish line but didn't have enough money to pay their cab driver. Although they were only steps away the finish line and the $1 million prize, the Agus continued to beg from nearby strangers until they paid their cab fare.

"It was all about honor," said Uchenna. "That cab driver was going to get his money."

During an earlier stretch of the race in Jodhpur, India, Joyce agreed to shave her head as part of a Fast Forward challenge, allowing the Agus to skip to end of the leg. Uchenna cites that bold "sacrifice" as one of the turning points in the race.

"Once you shave it off, you have nothing to hide behind," said Joyce. "People can actually see your soul. It's so bizarre. I'm glad I did it."

Much of the seventh season of Amazing Race was dominated by recently wed former Survivor contestants Rob "Boston Rob" Mariano, 29, and Amber Brkich, 26, who placed second in the race. Dating couple Ron Young, 28, from Villa Rica, Ga., and Kelly McCorkle, 26, from Greenville, S.C., placed third.

"We thought they were regular people like us," said Joyce of Mariano and Brkich. "Really, it was an eye opening experience when we got on the race and saw that their notoriety was so amazing and people all over the world recognized them. We tried to ignore all that and do our own race just to spite what was happening with them and obviously it still paid off."

Uchenna, an energy broker who once worked for Enron, and Joyce, a sales manager who once worked for WorldCom, plan to use their earnings for "bills, bills, bills" and to take their family on their own amazing trip. The Agus, who've tried unsuccessfully to have a child in the past, also said they would use their $1 million prize toward a baby.

"My doctors offered us a free round of in vitro (fertilization)," said Joyce. "So after all this is over, if it doesn't work out, we have the money. We can adopt."


http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3176817

would have thought the Chronicle would do their own story!

Max
Member

08-12-2000

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 5:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
YEAH! These two showed so much class. They won without being mean, without ever asking anyone along the way not to help another team and while still stopping to help others along the way and to make sure that their debts were paid (referring to the cab driver at the end). They also managed to truly enjoy their surroundings and rebuild their relationship along the way.

So nice to truly see the best team win! :-)

Readonly
Member

04-16-2003

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 5:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good guys do finish first!!!!! Good luck to you both, Joyce & Uchenna.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 6:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yikes, Joyce is 44, maybe even 45 by now. That is gonna be very tricky for her to do IVF-unless she gets donated eggs... But then why not just adopt? The wait for adopting a black child/baby is not long at all.

I am so happy that the good guys came in first!!!

Kep421
Member

08-11-2001

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 7:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think they should try adoption first... its amazing how many couples conceive after adopting...LOL

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 7:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Not that many......I know you are just teasing, but adoption isn't a fertility drug.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 7:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
and not at Joyce's age...

Kep421
Member

08-11-2001

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 7:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Really? that is amazing..I didn't know that... I was just basing my statement on the five couples I personally know throug the years who have adopted...4 of them conceived within 5 years...One couple joking stated that once they adopted, they relaxed enough to enjoy making a baby again...and that was what was missing...the joy of baby making...LOL

But then again...they were all under 40 too...and back then invitro wasn't as common as it is now...

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 7:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm sure her doctors will determine whether she's a good candidate for invetro or not. I'm so glad they won. I was kinda meh at the beginning of this season, not really feeling any of the teams but they became my favs.

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 8:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I thought they already tried in vitro. I still haven't seen the show, but that didn't stop me from celebrating and now I'm waiting for them on the Early Show (sadists that they are they are continuing to natter on about other things while teasing the presentation of the check "any time now" and I guess will have all three couples on.

I had no idea she was that old! Hopefully they will get good information and spend their money wisely. I still say they could get CBS to finance a return to that orphanage with some really adorable kids there.

Even though I knew and believed the big spoiler all along, you just never know until you see them cross the finish line.

Yeah, Mocha, I was meh about them too at the beginning but they won me over pretty quickly.

Colordeagua
Member

10-25-2003

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 8:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just now saw that Joyce is 44 and Uchenna 40. I hope they adopt a child, not try for their own. She's not so young. I am an only child of older parents. (They were 39 and 40 when I "appeared". Although my parents' 40 was older than 40 of today.) I don't like it. I always wished I at least had a sibling. At one point later in my Mom's years she said to me that she was more like my grandmother than mother. True. Today I still wonder what it would have been like to have a mother (parents) only 25 - 30 years older than me.

Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 8:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
on the interview last night in our local news Uchenna said "we will do another round of in vitro" so they have obviously done it before.

Native_texan
Member

08-24-2004

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 9:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was 35 when my son was born and even then I worried about the age factor. When he was a baby, I got out of a ticket because the officer asked if he and my 10-yr-old step-son were my grandchildren. When I told him to look at my birthdate, he was so embarassed that not only were they my sons but I really wasn't old enough for them to be my grandsons, especially the 10-yr-old.

It can definitely be a 2-sided sword. I wish I had been younger, but I also feel that I would not have been as well equipped to handle my son's problems.

No one should be deprived of having a child if they want one, but a child should also not have to feel or be responsible for his aging parents when he is starting a life and family of his own.

Remember, this is just my opinion to which I am entitled.

Tabbyking
Member

03-11-2002

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 9:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
joyce is definitely a 'young woman' so age shouldn't have that much to do with it as far as raising children. the real problem might be being pregnant for the first time at her (biological) age.
my husband is 40 years older than our son and he will be a month shy of 61 when dd graduates from high school next year. the only hardship with his (again, biological) age, is that he is going to get laid off from his job when we still have to get the two kids through college.
i still have faith he will find something (and not have to commute 92 miles each way, 5 days a week, as he has for 16 years) as he is very dependable and hardworking. he has had only 2 jobs in his entire life: 22 years in the air force and 21 with his present employer.
you know, if joyce and ucchena handle their money wisely (and i believe they will because they know hardship and how things can be taken away just like that, especially job- and income-wise...) they should be able to do just fine.
this is my favorite couple ever to win TAR.

although i loved zach, remembering flo getting half the prize still makes me shudder LOL



Max
Member

08-12-2000

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 9:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mom was 40 and dad 42 when they adopted me. That was pretty much ancient in the '50s to have a newborn around! Yes, I always noticed the age difference between my parents and my friends' parents, but the life in the age has more to with it than the age in the life, IMHO.

Whatever works for them to have a family, I'm all for it. I think they'll make wonderful parents.

Brenda1966
Member

07-03-2002

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 12:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree Max. I had young parents who were very active and I see them now in their golden years and they are STILL active, far more active than my friends who had older parents. It's more about personality than age.

At the age of 44 I know many IVF clinics won't even work with a woman that age unless they use donor eggs. I hope U/J find a solution and get that baby they so deserve!



Auntiemike
Member

09-17-2001

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 12:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I believe their faith will lead them in the right direction for them.

I was 42 1/2 when I had my one and only birth child. My other four came to us via adoption. I will be the proud 56 year old mother of a kindergartner in the Fall. The grey hairs don't stop coming but the blessings more than make up for it. I think that Joyce and Uchenna will be blessed in whatever way their family grows.