The pink team fell below the yellow line in The Biggest Loser Couples 2 Episode 7, and Helen and Shanon asked to let Shanon be sent home, which they did.
Helen’s questioning herself whether she made the right decision. So are a lot of people.
When they arrive at the challenge, the contestants are told it’s blue versus black. This year, there’s a twist, though. No one is guaranteed to keep their trainers. The winner gets to choose their trainer, the loser gets split up, and all the others will have their trainers chosen for them by the flip of a coin.
They will be doing up downs in the mud. First to 100 wins. Dane and Helen are automatically in this because they are singles. Everyone else will choose who represents them. Sione, Tara, Mike, Kristin, and Mandi are competing for their teams. Blue and green take the early lead. When they hit 66, Sione finally loses his lead to Tara. Tara maintains her lead and wins the challenge by 1. Sione finishes next. Mandi, Dane, and Mike are next. Pink and purple are quite a ways behind. They battle pretty closely, but Kristin ends up edging Helen out by 1. Because she came in last and does not have a partner, Helen will automatically switch trainers. Because the black team fills up so quickly, as a reward for coming in third, if the coin doesn’t land on blue, Mandi & Aubrey will be separated. If it does land on blue, they switch trainers. Dane’s next, so he just goes wherever the coin lands. Then Mike & Ron run the risk of being split up. The coin lands black, so they will be split up. Since that decision has been made and the black team is full, purple team gets to stay together and with their trainer, despite having come in next to last.
That leaves the new teams as follows:
Black (Jillian)
Tara & Laura (no change)
Helen (changed from Bob)
Sione & Filipe (changed from Bob)
Mike (changed from Bob)
Blue (Bob)
Mandi & Aubrey (changed from Jillian)
Dane (changed from Jillian)
Ron (no change)
Kristin & Cathy (no change)
On the black team, only Tara & Laura remain the same, but they are now with all old Bob team members. On the blue team, Ron and Kristin & Cathy stayed the same, with a 50/50 split of old Bob and old Jillian.
Sione doesn’t feel like he’s pushing himself any more now that he’s lost Bob, and he doesn’t care to either. Mike, however, welcomes Jillian’s assistance and is willing to do whatever he needs to succeed.
Sione tells Bob and Filipe he’d rather go home. I say go ahead. Others still want to be there.
Bob’s more upset than he’s ever been before on this show, but he realizes that he’s got a job to do, so he pulls it together and begins working with his new team.
They’re greeted by Alison with a bunch of bikes for what she informs them is the longest challenge in Biggest Loser history. The bike challenge will last for 24 hours. The team with the most miles wins a 3 pound advantage, and every member of the winning team gets their own bike, which they may never want to ride again. Mike starts for black up against Mandi for blue. While Mike’s racing, Tara immediately goes back to the house to get whatever they need to make it through the next day. Black team plans to do 30 minutes and then rest for 2 and a half hours. Blue team doesn’t seem to have a plan, but Mandi goes for an hour. As it goes through the middle of the night, black appears to be sticking to their plan, while blue doesn’t appear to plan to have a plan. With 9 hours left, Ron, Cathy, and Mandi realize they’re not going to win, and they want to call a truce to rest for a while. Sione says he has to finish it because he doesn’t want to be a quitter. Aubrey says she’s with him, and they can handle it and need to keep going. Although it’s a foregone conclusion that black is going to win this challenge, everybody keeps going and finishes. Blue team rode 264 miles. Black team rode 301.9 miles to win. Tara went the furthest of all, 58.8 miles by herself.
Due to tonight’s Obama coverage, this week is split half today and half tomorrow. American Idol has, likewise, been preempted. For the conclusion of this episode, check out The Biggest Loser Couples 2 Episode 8B.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser 7 Episode 9, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on NBC.