Mother/son duo Margie and Luke immediately established their competitive bonifides to be on "The Amazing Race 14," taking the first leg of the reality series season in Switzerland.
The pair raced in the first tier for virtually the entire length of TAR 14.1, taking the lead for good on the cheese task. Though Luke took an embarrassing tumble, he recovered to lead his team to complete the cheese moving atop the field.
The truly appealing thing about this team is that it's not a token team that is just glad to be there. No matter what hook may have been used to get on the show, any team that isn't genuinely in it to win it shouldn't waste my time or yours.
Luke took the bungee jumping Roadblock which is probably for the best since bungee jumping doesn't require any communication skills. How the deaf Luke would cope with such a solo task that does depend on communication to get around is unanswerable.
On the flip side, the unique ability that Margie and Luke will have to communicate with each other in plain sight without other teams listening in was already noticed early on. Whether that ability will translate into any advantage on future legs is an unknown. It could still play out either way to me.
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