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Karen
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09-07-2004
| Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 11:42 pm
btw, every shot they showed of the beaches in Sri Lanka, I was just awestruck and saddened by how innocent and beautiful the ocean was. That was a touching dedication at the beginning of the episode.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 2:18 am
I agree. I was totally saddened to see how beautiful it was and what has happened since they filmed there. The dedication was touching. I'm still loving Kris and Jon and was glad thehy got the trip this week. They were often standing there 2nd. I really love this couple. Their comments about the offering and wanting to respect the culture was really touching. I sure hope they win. I definitely don't want to see any of the others win. For those of you who realized Haydon was on that "The Next Action Star" - Don't you find it strange she did all those stunts on that show, but was freaking out about the high ropes? I don't remember really well, but didn't she make it to the end or close to the end? Strange.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 6:50 am
Lori and Bolo said on the Early Show today that the area they were in in Sri Lanka was one of the areas that was decimated by the tsunami. The train that was washed away in the tsunami was the exact same train that they rode on in this episode, according to them.
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 7:22 am
I don't see Haydon listed as a contestant on "Next Action Star"? Was she using a different name?
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Missy2
Member
07-31-2001
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 8:09 am
Did anyone transcribe the early morning show with Lori and Bolo? I love them!

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Hobbs
Member
08-05-2002
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 8:51 am
Poor Rebecca. Having to pretend that she is Adam's girlfriend just to get him through the race. That boy needs to cut his hair, move out of his house and grow up. Hey that's what my father told me 25 years ago, LOL. Anyway, <he> is going to be crushed in the end. He thinks he's saved his relationship, and all she is after is half a mil. Oh well. I guess his mother can console him. <QT>
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Wilsonatmd
Member
01-23-2001
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 8:59 am
Hey...anyone know what the situation is for the last 4 teams when it comes to Roadblocks? This is going to come into play this week and next....
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 9:47 am
The saddest thing about Lori and Bolo being Phileminated is that they made a point of saying earlier in the show that they were going to be sure and reach the clues thoroughly to make sure they didn't miss anything - and then this same thing is exactly what makes them lose!
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Hereiam
Member
03-29-2002
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 10:10 am
I have a chart of the roadblock situation but don't how to post it other than as an attachment. I would love to learn how though if someone wants to clue me in. But here are the basics: Rebecca/Adam have done 4/4 roadblocks( 4 each - they have one less due to a fast forward) Kendra/Freddy 4/5 (Freddy one more) Hayden/Aaron 5/4 (Hayden one more I think assuming she is the one who did the grape stomp - couldn't remember for sure) Kris/Jon 4/5 (Jon one more) Hope that helps some
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 10:39 am
I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, Hereiam, but this link shows how to create tables(near the bottom of the page). Formatting I can't do charts so I don't know if this will satisfy your needs though 
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 10:43 am
Jimmer - I didn't check it out personally. I was just taking the word of an earlier poster who said they figured out why she looked familiar. Maybe it isn't the same person, but I do remember a woman who looked a lot like her in it.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 11:48 am
I think the speculation over Hayden being in Next Action Star was wrong, they were confusing her with Mae. I tried to find out more when we were talking about it before and found nothing, anywhere, confirming it. If it was true one of the Reality sites would have confirmed it.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 11:56 am
YAY JAN!!!! (I'm positively reinforcing Jan's presence here.)
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Spear
Member
08-06-2001
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 12:02 pm
Hereiam, I think it was Aaron who did the grape stomping so it's 4/5 for H/A. Also, I think it's 3/5 for Rebecca/Adam. (Adam did the zipline, haybales, salt harvest, medallion match, and stair climb. Rebecca did the soap box derby, rocket bungee, and spicy soup. Missy2, the video clip of Lori and Bolo on "The Early Show" can be found on this page: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml (Click "Entertainment" on the left; the clip should then be the second one listed.)
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Shelb724
Member
10-20-2002
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 12:08 pm
in the back of my mind, i thought that might be the same train. that is so incredibly sad. here i was thinking of just it impacting where survivor filmed, now it turns out it was amazing race. and wasn't it refreshing not to hear screaming of people at each other for once? even tho its all the clones now, but at least J and V are gone .
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Hereiam
Member
03-29-2002
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 2:14 pm
My first table!!! Thank you Jan on where to look to learn how to do it. Any way I think the information is correct... I checked back on Raenstorm's wonderful spoilers to clarify.
| Adam/Rebecca | Freddy/Kendra | Aaron/Hayden | Jon/Kris | Iceland/no roadblock | x | x | x | x | Norway/zip line | Adam | Kendra | Aaron | Jon | Sweden/hay bales | Adam | Freddy | Aaron | Jon | Senegal/salt harvest | Adam | Kendra | Hayden | Kris | Germany/soap box | Rebecca | Freddy | Hayden | Jon | Germany/bungee rocket | Rebecca | Kendra | Hayden | Kris | Hungary/soup | Rebecca | Freddy | Aaron | Jon | France/grape stomp | Fast forward | Kendra | Aaron | Kris | Ethiopia/pendant | Adam | Freddy | Hayden | Kris | Sri Lanka/temple climb | Adam | Freddy | Aaron | Jon | | So that puts the totals as Adam/Rebecca 5/3 Freddy/Kendra 5/4 Aaron/Hayden 5/4 Jon/Kris 5/4 edited to fix Adam doing temple climb - thanks Spear. CRS strikes again
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Spear
Member
08-06-2001
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 2:19 pm
Adam did the temple climb.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 2:52 pm
So that means there are just 3 road blocks left and that the girls have to do 2. Doesn't seem like a good strategy to me. The girls should have run up the temple as that was something that didn't need strength.
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Wilsonatmd
Member
01-23-2001
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 3:13 pm
Well I think the temple roadblock was difficult because of the number of steps....a lot of endurance would be required. This episode next week is going to require some strategy...because you have to figure one of the last 3 (likely, but they may not do one or not show one...) roadblocks is going to probably be physical, perhaps very physical.
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Gina8642
Member
06-01-2001
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 5:14 pm
I think Hayden or Rebecca might have done well in that stair climb, but Kendra doesn't look that aerobically fit. Not sure about Kris, but Jon looks stronger aerobically than her. I think all the teams have made a bit of a strategic mistake by keeping the challenges exactly even. It seems like the finale always has some extremely phsically difficult things to do. I would have loaded up the female member of the team with some of the challenges either sex could excel at - like Grape stomping, soup eating, or zip line (although this involved a lot of steps too). Off the top of my head I can't think of any roadblocks that specifically favored women, but I can think of quite a few where a typical guy's superior strenth and speed was favored. Not that every guy is stronger and faster but amongst the remaining four teams, the male partner is, with the possible exception of Rebecca and Adam. Adam is rather short and his muscles seemed to have been earned in a gym and not in athletics; whereas. Rebecca seems to be an all around athlete. Still, Adam would probably still beat her in a brute strength competition. Hayden is also a good athlete, but her partner is just a phenominal one, so I'd choose him over her for many of the speed and agility comps.
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Ar_jammer
Member
11-17-2004
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 8:26 pm
Episode 10 – Sigiriya, Sri Lanka Started looking for the stadium in Addis, Ababa… found this site. Did you know that Addis Ababa means “New Flower”? http://www.selamta.net/addis_ababa.htm Georgraphy page of Addis, Ababa http://www.macalester.edu/courses/geog61/kshively/addisgeo.html This page has what I think are pictures of the actual stadium. Have to watch the show again. http://www.fussballtempel.net/caf/ETH/Addis_Abeba.html Sri Lanka Starting with the CIA factbook. You can see the 3 of the 4 cities they traveled to, Colombo, Galle, and Kandy.. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ce.html lonelyplanet site http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/indian_subcontinent/sri_lanka/ This map includes Dambulla and Sigiriya. http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mapshells/indian_subcontinent/sri_lanka/sri_lanka.htm Official Sri Lankan tourism page http://www.srilankatourism.org/ Considered the comprehensive travel portal for Sri Lanka. This site will show up frequently. http://www.atsrilanka.com/ Found this map, this is the coolest map I have ever found. It’s a very comprehensive map of Sri Lanka. Little tough to navigate if you try. Anyway… http://www.srilanka-reise.de/srilanka/index.php?x=d&y=5 Colombo http://www.atsrilanka.com/cityofcolombo.htm Here are pictures from a person’s trip to Colombo. There is one of traffic at the train station. http://www.pbase.com/spoonbender/colombo Kind of looks familiar http://www.pbase.com/spoonbender/image/24682985 A tuk tuk importer… in England. No commercial ties (wink) http://www.tuk-tuk.co.uk/ Searching for more Tuk tuk info I found this vacationer’s pictures. Excellent pictures of Lion’s Rock in there among others of interest. http://www.stanford.edu/~ahooper/2003SriLanka/ Galle Another vacationer’s pictures http://www.galenfrysinger.com/galle.htm Although the cricket stadium was not on TAR, there are before and after tsunami pictures here http://cryptome.org/galle-stadium.htm Galle on explorelanka.com http://www.explorelanka.com/places/south/galle.htm Fort Galle pictures http://www.adanor.co.uk/dutch.html Elephant polo picture http://traveldoug.com/03sl29.html Elephant needing a job… polo in Sri Lanka http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/24119/newsDate/04-Mar-2004/story.htm Kandy The connectedtraveler site http://www.connectedtraveler.com/kandy.html on mysrilanka.com http://www.mysrilanka.com/travel/history/kandy.htm Official site of the Temple of the Tooth (cool) http://www.sridaladamaligawa.lk/english/ Tooth Temple pictures http://www.galenfrysinger.com/tooth_temple.htm Nice site about the Kandyan Art Association http://www.kandycity.org/artcraft.html Dambulla On mysrilanka.com http://www.mysrilanka.com/travel/history/dambulla.htm History of Lion’s Rock site http://www.holymtn.com/SriLanka/lionrock.htm Sigiriya photos http://travelsnapz.tripod.com/srilankasigiriyaphotos.html Pictures at the rock http://www.frazadelic.com/SriLanka4.html Another traveler’s pictures http://web.pdx.edu/~mmlynch/srilanka/trip2002/sigiriya.htm Great shots. This is a place to visit.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 10:48 am
LOL...I definitely think Rebecca could take Adam down if it came to hand-to-hand combat. For one thing he has those little handles on his head that will probably cause great pain if twisted! Kendra couldn't have done the stairs last time because she was already weakened by her bout of stomach problems. Kris told Jon he needed to do the stairs - perhaps there were other issues (illness, injury?) because usually it seems to me that she has been willing to do whatever needed to be done.
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Mush
Member
09-09-2002
| Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 10:50 am
Great table, Here! I'm thinking that the guys did the temple climb this week because they were all so close. Any team that went with the slightly weaker team member would have a good chance of being last.
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Gina8642
Member
06-01-2001
| Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 8:04 pm
Kris probably said that because (a) she knew he had to go this leg to keep them even in the challenge count and (b) he's better at speedy aerobic challenges. I don't think it had anything to do with her not feeling up to it. Though I'm sure if Jon was injured, she would have done it. They finished number one, so they made the correct decision.
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Csnog
Member
07-18-2002
| Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 8:16 pm
With 4 teams left and there being one more "non elimination" I think next week will be it.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Friday, January 28, 2005 - 11:02 am
With the finale coming on February 8th, it looks like this season will have 12 episodes like season 5 and seems to be matched up with the same number of remaining teams starting week 11. In season 5, week 11 (next Tuesday), 4 teams started, it was a non-elimination week and there was 1 roadblock. Here's a description of the roadblock:In Auckland, New Zealand, this Roadblock required one Team member to travel by boat to the Auckland Harbor Bridge and climb a 75-foot ladder to the girders beneath the roadway. Once there, balancing over the harbor, they must walk the narrow metal planks to the clue on the other side. After receiving the clue, they would be lowered down to their waiting partner in the boat below. Colin, Chip, Linda and Brandon took the high road for their Teams. In season 5, week 12 (the finale), 4 teams started, 1 team was eliminated halfway through and there was 1 road block. Here's a description of the roadblock:On the penultimate leg of THE AMAZING RACE, the Roadblock was on Lagen Island in the Philippines. To complete the task, one Team member had to use a device called an ascender to pull themselves 150 feet up the side of a limestone cliff, Lagen Wall. Upon completing the ascent, they would receive their next clue and rappel 150 feet back down to their partner. Colin, Chip, Karen and Brandon performed this Roadblock for their Teams. That last roadblock is what took Linda and Karen out of the race, even though they had a humongous lead on Colin and Christie. So, I agree that next week is probably non-elimination and I would guess that there are only 2 more roadblocks. I would also expect all the ladies to do the next roadblock so that every team will have both members available for the final roadblock. <...hopes people don't think I meant Adam when I said "all the ladies"...>
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, January 28, 2005 - 12:46 pm
LOL Bob!
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