One had to believe that a first place finish would just be too good to last for flight attendants Christie & Jodi and it was, as their run in Novosibirsk almost result in their elimination from "The Amazing Race 14."
After their lead was equalized out by the train ride across Siberia, Christie and Jodi established a fifth place standing only to be completely flummoxed by their attempts to travel for the Detour task. The flight attendants ran across Russian inhospitality in the form of drunken, lecherous male locals followed by another local who misdirected the pair with Russian bride in toe to the wrong church.
It would take the payment to follow a taxi driver that would get Christie & Jodi back on track, unfortunately much too late to save them from the last place spot. Christie's pixillated run and Jodi's jammed finger would not change the outcome. Of course, with the predesignated non-elimination, it will take this sixth leg to determine if their fifth leg issues will carry over to defeat them.
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While Christie and Jodi's problems were largely of their own making on previous legs, their fifth leg issues seemed more from bad luck than everything else though one wishes they had enlisted a cab driver to follow much sooner in the leg.
The one good thing about an "Amazing Race" at least for Christie and Jodi is that unlike poor racing skills, bad luck isn't inclined to afflict the same race team twice in a row. If Christie & Jodi can overcome the Speed Bump, there might still be hope.
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