Father/son team Mel and Mike came into "The Amazing Race 14" with one of the more unusual backgrounds. Both men are creative not athletic types, writers of one sort or another, but nonetheless both men raced well in leg one.
The team was stuck on the second flight out but raced aggresively once in Locarno, being the only team from the latter tier of racers off to grab a 7:30 a.m. departure from the Church of San Antonio.
Mel & Mike even briefly held a lead into the cheese moving task. It was that scenario though that dropped the pair down to a fourth place check-in. Mel and Mike didn't do anything particularly wrong as far as is known, it was just a physical task that played towards their particular weaknesses.
Mel was smart (and gutsy, I knew the man would be gutsy) to simply slide himself down the hill with one wheel of cheese. That was an insane kind of strategy but it probably helped the father/son duo in the race. To the extent that tasks come in as physical as the cheese moving exercise though, "The Amazing Race 14" could prove an exceptionally difficult go of things.
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