CBS video: Mark & Michael
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Brothers/Stuntmen Mark and Michael come into TAR14 as perhaps the strongest alpha male team. Mark and Michael will bring a number of strengths into their run on the program. Both are stuntmen, meaning both of them have to have at least some athletic skill. Mark has also worked as a jockey, which I know to be an athletic profession from my own late family friend's knowledge of the horse racing industry.
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The one so-called impediment of each brother being four foot nine is really no kind of impediment at all. Unless one is Charla-sized, there aren't too many tasks that Racers of that height are simply incapable of doing. of course, even Charla ended up as a skilled racer as it turned out.
Mark and Michael will also come in with extensive travel experience, though again most of that seems to be domestically based so I'm not sure how much that will translate on TAR14. Each of them is at/near aged 50 so that doesn't help on the physical side though I believe jockey/stuntman training should make up for that deficit.
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My only initial concern is over a declared strategy, as it doesn't seem to be one that fits the TAR perspective. Mark made reference to not wanting to go too fast at the beginning, a common strategy in the horse racing game.
The idea is that horses starting too fast against each other would exhaust themselves making them vulnerable to an outside come from behind effort. Of course, horse races don't summarily eliminate the last place horse at each of the quarter poles. Hanging back too far in the pack of an Amazing Race will get a team eliminated.
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