The Amazing Race 26
| The Amazing Race 26 | |
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| Season Run | February 25 – May 15, 2015 |
| Filming dates | November 12 – December 6, 2014 |
| Presenter | Phil Keoghan |
| Winning team | Laura Pierson & Tyler Adams |
| Season Stats | |
| Continents visited | 5 |
| Countries visited | 9 |
| No. of legs | 12 |
| Distance traveled | 35,000 mi (56,000 km) |
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The Amazing Race 26 is the 26th installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. In this installment, eleven teams of dating couples (six existing couples and five blind date teams who met for the first time at the start of the race) competed in a race around the world for a $1 million (USD) grand prize.The season premiered on CBS for the 2014–15 television season with a special 90-minute episode on Wednesday, February 25, 2015. Following the premiere, the program aired in the same time slot that the previous season of The Amazing Race took. The season finale aired on May 15, 2015.
Blind date couple Laura Pierson & Tyler Adams, known as "Team SoCal," were the winners of the 26th season of The Amazing Race.
This season covered 35,000 miles (56,000 km), five continents, and eight countries, including visits to Japan, Thailand, Namibia, Germany, and for the first time Monaco. In some race segments, a special clue was available. Teams selecting the special clue received a Date Night reward, an opportunity to participate in a romantic activity.
The Save from the previous season returned for this season but was unaired, unclaimed, and unused. It could be obtained during the 3rd leg of the race by completing both sides of the detour.
For the second season in a row, four teams were going to compete in the final leg of the race. However, the host of the show, Phil Keoghan, eliminated one team in the middle of the final leg, leaving only three teams racing to the finish line for the $1 million grand prize.
In the beginning of each episode, the scene in which host Keoghan describes the country and pit stop, had been removed and was replaced by the team discussing what happened during the previous episode or a team having their date night before the next leg began.
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