‘The Amazing Race’s’ Steve and Anna Leigh reveal how they actually lost time in Dublin
Steve Cargile and Anna Leigh Wilson got off to an inauspicious start on “The Amazing Racer 35’s” penultimate leg in Dublin. The father and daughter were last heading into the first task — swimming in the Irish Sea — and Steve struggled in the freezing water, but they managed to get to the “Riverdance” Roadblock in third and leave in third. And they might have made the final three had they not turned back to the parking garage where they had parked for the “Riverdance” Roadblock, which was not shown in the episode and resulted in them losing 20 to 25 minutes.
“Had we not had to go back — because we actually exited on the wrong floor — I think we could’ve been in the top three,” Anna Leigh tells Gold Derby (watch above). “I’ll regret that. I’ll have PTSD for the rest of my life.”
“It’s always hindsight,” Steve adds. “We didn’t know if there was a penalty involved or what the penalty would be, so we went back and exited the correct way just to make sure. We shouldn’t have gone back. We should’ve just taken a gamble on the penalty and went on, but hindsight’s 20/20.”
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The pair — who admit they lost track of their Roadblock count, which forced Steve to perform both of them in Dublin — seemed like they were surely out in Leg 8 when they missed the “taken” sign and went for the Express Pass despite knowing they were well behind.
“The whole race almost conditions you to look for the red and yellow signs … but we didn’t see the teeny, tiny, little ball pen sign,” Anna Leigh says. “I thought the race could do anything they want. They can change any of the rules they want at any given point, so, in my head, I thought, maybe they’re going to have two Express Passes. Maybe. This is our last-ditch effort. You never know. At that point, I said, ‘We’re going home, so we may as well try.'”
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