Married couple Brad & Victoria had raced reasonably well if not exceptionally so through the first two TAR14 legs but a series of bizarre traveling flukes paved the way for etheir limination from "The Amazing Race 14."
The spouses could have taken a 4:45 flight departure from Munich to Bucharest but were initially dissuaded from making the reservation by a local, choosing instead to try a 9:30 departure and look to upgrade at the airport.
It was that upgrade attempt to proved disastrous as the 7:30 departure they eventually found left Munich airport too late to make its connector in Amsterdam. With the Netherlands-based airport fogged in, the spouses were stuck till the next day, played straight out of the race.
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After watching Tammy & Victor's ridiculousness, clearly Brad & Victoria couldn't possibly have been the worst team of leg three. If there's to be a criticism, it's only that the team didn't move sooner to attempt to make that 4:45 p.m. reservation.
They can't really be blamed for trying to upgrade to the Amsterdam flight though being the solo racers on any flight allows no margin for error should things go wrong. Brad and Victoria seemed to have intestinal fortitude to last to the end, I'm saddened we didn't get a chance to see that happen.
On a side note, the meteorologist in me would love to see a race team actually check the weather forecasts in advance for some of these destinations. Such advance knowledge could have warded off Brad & Victoria from going anywhere near Amsterdam in the first place. Of course, since no team seems to have utilized that tactic to date, that's likely asking too much.
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