'The Amazing Race' Cast: Brodie & Kurt Dish Elimination And Uneven Roadblock Counts [VIDEO]
They were potentially the favorites to win the entire game on the current season of The Amazing Race, but Ultimate Frisbee champions Brodie Smith and Kurt Gibson were shockingly eliminated from the show after falling victim to the Double U-Turn.
The two, who had previously won four legs, were the only ones who were forced to do the U-Turn after Tyler Oakley and Korey Kuhl sent them back, and Burnie Burns and Ashley Jenkins, assured they were the only ones who could be U-Turning by then putting Tyler and Korey's photo up, even though they'd already been to the board. Because of their having to complete the extra task, the other remaining teams were able to beat them to the mat, forcing their elimination.
Now, in a post-elimination interview with Reality TV World, the guys admit that being eliminated for something that was out of their control stings more than if they had made a fatal mistake on their own.
"One-hundred percent," Brodie said. "Me and Kurt said all along that if we were going to get eliminated and not win, we would like it to be our[mistake]--because of something we did wrong."
The two also admitted that though they were initially surprised by the decision to U-Turn them, after prior conversations with their fellow teams where they had all hoped to have just strong teams in the final leg, they do understand why they changed the plan on them when they did.
"To see what Tyler and Korey and Burnie and Ashley did at the time, we were definitely shocked, but looking back on it, they were in the Race, they had finished second to us multiple times and they had a chance to eliminate us, and they took it," Brodie said.
There was also a reason why Kurt wound up performing nearly all of the early Roadblocks for the team, which led to Brodie having to complete the last ones for them for however long they'd be left in the race.
"Well, they didn't really show it on the Race, but I had a torn ACL and actually had a torn meniscus a couple of months before the Race," Brodie said. "And so, that was an issue for us. There was a lot of-I wouldn't say fear-but there was a lot of concern that some Roadblocks I would either do really poorly on or potentially not even be able to do...So unfortunately for us, there were a lot of times where, if the Roadblock wasn't something I knew exactly what it was-and I knew I could do it-Kurt had to do it."
The Amazing Race airs Fridays at 8 p.m. on CBS.
