Having struggled to work together for the first time, Aly & Steve found themselves with a flat tire in The Amazing Race 26 Episode 7 but were saved by non-elimination.
Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.
First: Matt & Ashley – 6:47AM
Second: Laura & Tyler – 6:48AM
Third: Hayley & Blair – 7:08AM
Fourth: Jelani & Jenny – 7:35AM
Fifth: Mike & Rochelle – 7:54AM
Sixth: Aly & Steve – 8:12AM
From the bush, they head to the town of Swakopmund, the remnants of this area’s founding as German South Africa. On their way through town, Jelani & Jenny become the latest victims of a flat tire, which they realize as they pull into a gas station.
The road block requires teams to take part in an airdrop. The dirty trick is that the people who do the road block are just searching for the box that is dropped (and a roaming gnome), not skydiving as they hoped.
Before the road block, Aly & Steve must build toy planes for their speed bump.
Road block (in order of arrival): Ashley, Laura, Hayley, Mike, Jelani, Steve
The detour is a choice between work or play. In work, teams must drag tires behind their truck to smooth out the dirt roads. In play, teams must cross country sand ski.
Play: Matt & Ashley, Jelani & Jenny
Work: Laura & Tyler, Hayley & Blair, Mike & Rochelle, Aly & Steve
The “play” task turns out to be more work than the work task, but none of this really seems to matter at this point.
Matt & Ashley and Laura & Tyler started off working together with the plan to U-turn Jelani & Jenny. Apparently, Matt & Ashley still have issues with Jenny stemming back to leg 4 and their argument over transportation. As planned, Matt & Ashley U-turn Jelani & Jenny, who used their express pass on the detour, so now they have to complete one part of the detour like everybody else. Since it’s a double U-turn, Laura & Tyler U-turn Aly & Steve, who until they came to Africa seemed to be the race’s biggest threats but are now dead last again.
The pit stop for this leg of the race is just a run away from the detour.
First: Laura & Tyler (win a trip to New Zealand)
Second: Matt & Ashley
Third: Hayley & Blair
Fourth: Jelani & Jenny
Fifth: Mike & Rochelle
Eliminated: Aly & Steve
After a disastrous couple of legs, Aly & Steve have been eliminated.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of The Amazing Race 26 Episode 9, which airs Friday at 8/7c on CBS.