The Amazing Race 17
| The Amazing Race 17 | |
|---|---|
| Season Run | September 26 – December 12, 2010 |
| Filming dates | May 26 – June 15, 2010 |
| No. of Episodes | 12 |
| Presenter | Phil Keoghan |
| Winning team | Natalie "Nat" Strand & Katherine "Kat" Chang |
| Unfinished Business | Gary & Mallory Ervin |
| All-Stars | Mallory Ervin |
| Season Stats | |
| Continents visited | 4 |
| Countries visited | 10 |
| Cities visited | 30 |
| Distance traveled | 32,000 mi (51,000 km) |
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The Amazing Race 17 is the seventeenth installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 17 features eleven teams of two individuals, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world.
The seventeenth cycle started on Sunday, September 26, 2010. It aired on CBS in the United States in a special 90-minute episode; then returned to its normal hour-long format the following week on Sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT The season finale was on December 12, 2010. The show was again hosted by Phil Keoghan.
This was the final season filmed and broadcast in Standard Definition.
Anesthesiologists Natalie "Nat" Strand and Katherine "Kat" Chang were the winners of the Race, and were the first all-female team to win the American edition of the competition.
The season was released by CBS DVD on November 4, 2014, in a DVD set including all episodes and its accompanying Elimination Station web series. It was only made available through online purchase, manufactured by Amazon.com's CreateSpace.
CBS renewed the 17th edition of The Amazing Race on January 25, 2010. The season premiered on September 26, 2010, with a special 90-minute episode; it returned to its regular hour-long format the following week.
This season spanned 32,000 miles (51,000 km) while racing across four continents, with first-time visits to Ghana and Bangladesh. Also for the first time in the show's history, teams crossed the Arctic Circle.
Filming began on May 26, 2010, with the starting line at the Eastern Point Yacht Club in Gloucester, Massachusetts, making this the first season since The Amazing Race All-Stars to start in a city other than Los Angeles. It ended on June 15, 2010, with the finish line in Los Angeles, California.
Prior to the Race's broadcast, CBS posted a short preview video clip from an episode on the Internet, showing Brook and Claire competing at a watermelon launching challenge using an elastic slingshot. The clip showed Claire, working the slingshot, being hit in the face full-on with a watermelon after it failed to launch correctly, leaving her momentarily stunned but otherwise not seriously injured. The clip spread virally on the Internet.
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