The Amazing Race 7
| The Amazing Race 7 | |
|---|---|
| Season Run | March 1 – May 10, 2005 |
| Filming dates | November 20 – December 19, 2004 |
| No. of Episodes | 11 (12 including recap) |
| Winning team | Uchenna and Joyce Agu |
| All-Stars | Uchenna and Joyce Agu, Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich |
| Season Stats | |
| Continents visited | 5 |
| Countries visited | 10 |
| Cities visited | 25 |
| No. of legs | 12 |
| Distance traveled | 40,000 mi (64,000 km) |
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The Amazing Race 7 was the seventh installment of the US reality television show The Amazing Race. It featured 11 teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world. This installment premiered on March 1, 2005 and completed its broadcast run on May 10, 2005.
Married couple Uchenna and Joyce Agu were the winners of this season.
The Amazing Race 7 took place over 29 days and traveled nearly 40,000 miles (64,000 km). Filming began on November 20, 2004 and finished on December 19, 2004. The teams raced in ten countries; five of them were not previously visited in the series. The new countries were Peru, Chile, Botswana, Turkey and Jamaica. Puerto Rico, a US territory in the Caribbean, also appeared for the first time.
This was the first edition to not circumnavigate the world by traveling continuously either west or east while crossing each meridian. Once teams traveled as far east as India, they returned to the United States traveling westward through Europe and the Caribbean. However, the route does approach that of a great circle on the globe.
In this edition of the race, a change was made to the non-elimination leg penalty. In addition to being stripped of all their money and receiving no allowance for the next leg of the race, teams were forced to surrender all of their possessions, except for their passports and the clothes they were wearing, for the remainder of the race; this penalty came to be referred to as "mugging" by fans. They were also no longer allowed to beg for money prior to the start of the next leg (after the next leg started, they can beg for money). The racers could also receive or buy clothing or toiletries from other teams.
Leg 3 of this race featured a difficult Roadblock in which players had to eat 4 pounds (1.8 kg) of meat and organs. Four players quit this food-eating task: Rob, Meredith, Deana, and Patrick; the most to ever quit a task in a single leg. Although it was not aired on television or in the DVD, Patrick quit the Roadblock but later decided to complete it. The aired portion had Patrick eating and finishing the meat and never taking the four-hour penalty.
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