The comeback story came up just short on Wednesday’s “The Amazing Race 35.” Travel to Stockholm allowed Todd and Ashlie Martin to catch up to the other four teams, but the husband and wife were left behind at the wreath-making Roadblock. Not helping matters? Rob and Corey used their Express Pass to skip the task. Todd and Ashlie didn’t see another team for the rest of the leg, and while the episode made it seem like a footrace to the mat between them and Steve and Anna Leigh, it wasn’t that close.
“From what we’ve been told, we were about 10-15 minutes behind the last team to get to the mat,” Ashlie tells Gold Derby. Todd adds, “We were rushing to that train and we missed it by like three seconds. Then we had to wait 10 minutes. They could have very well been on that train. We didn’t see them. Maybe the story would have been a little different if we caught that train.” Watch the full video interview above.
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In an alternative Race-verse, it could’ve been Todd and Ashlie using the Express Pass this leg. Rob and Corey won the coveted perk in Leg 8 after the couple, who had arrived first at the location, missed the marker for the task.
“Us missing that Express Pass was the game-changer,” Todd admits. “If we would have got that Express Pass I think it would have looked a lot different for us. That’s why I’m not really too upset losing based on chance. We messed up. We missed it. I can’t look anywhere else except at myself.”
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