The Amazing Race 14 is the fourteenth installment of the American reality television show The Amazing Race. This season featured 11 teams of two, with a pre-existing russian dating phuket, in a race around the world. The season premiered on Sunday, February 15, 2009, at 8:00 p.
PT and aired on Sunday nights with the season finale on May 10, 2009. The show was again hosted by Phil Keoghan. Siblings Tamara Tien-Jan “Tammy” and Victor Jih were the winners of this season’s race, and are the first Asian American contestants to win the competition. The complete season was released on DVD on May 21, 2014. Teams were brought to the race’s starting line at Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base in California by Seahawks.
Legs 10 and 11 formed a double-length leg which resulted in a combined “superleg”, it was a surprise feature of every Race from Season 6 to Season 10 but has not been seen since. Mel and Mike confirmed in a post-race interview that there was an unaired, unused, Fast Forward in Leg 7 that involved purchasing items for an orphanage using the team’s own money. This was the first season ever where no team took the Fast Forward option throughout the race. The Maui finish line was the southernmost finish location in the American version of the Race.
Applications were due on May 28, 2008. Semi-finalist interviews were held sometime in June 2008, and the final casting interviews were held in Los Angeles around late June or early July 2008. Scouting for locations was performed during August. Filming took place during November 2008. One member of the cast, Luke Adams, is the first deaf contestant in the U. Margie Adams to communicate in the race. The Amazing Race Asia 2 winner Adrian Yap was the only other deaf Amazing Race contestant.
Margie and Luke also competed in the second All-Star edition. As of 2013, Amanda and Kris were married, and Jen is married and has a daughter. As of 2017, Jaime is married to MLB player Evan Longoria and has a daughter. Cara was married and then divorced, and has since remarried and had a daughter too.