The Amazing Race 17

 is the seventeenth installment of The Amazing Race. It premiered on Sunday, September 26, 2010 with a 90-minute episode at 8:30pm e/p on CBS.

Casting
Applications for this season were due on February 4, 2010. Interviews were conducted in the Spring of 2010.

Results
The following teams participated in the Race, with their relationships at the time of filming. Placements are listed in finishing order:


 * An * indicates that the contestant(s) appeared on more than one season.

Leg 1 - Episode 1 (United States → England, UK)
Title: "They Don't Call It The Amazing Race For Nothin!" –-Brook
 * Starting Line: Eastern Point Yacht Club, Gloucester, Massachusetts
 * Flight from Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts to London Heathrow Airport, London, England
 * Stonehenge, Amesbury, Wiltshire
 * Eastnor Castle, Ledbury, Herefordshire
 * One team member traveled on horseback and used a big slingshot to hurl melons and knock a suit of armor down
 * Eastnor Castle, Ledbury, Herefordshire
 * Teams climbed a ladder up a the castle wall, retrieve a medieval flag from the battlements, cross water in a small boat, then bring their flag to a knight for the next clue
 * Eastnor Castle, Ledbury, Herefordshire
 * Elimination Station Video: Ron & Tony
 * Elimination Station Video: Ron & Tony

Leg 2 - Episode 2 (England, UK → Ghana)
Title: ""A Kiss Saves The Day" -- Brook
 * London Heathrow Airport, London, England to Kotoka International Airport, Accra, Ghana
 * Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park
 * Makola Market
 * A team member had to sell sunglasses and make GH₵15 (~US$10) without selling a any pair for less than GH₵3
 * Peace Motor Spare Parts:
 * Tune In: teams had to travel to Adom Electronics, get a tv antenna, take it to a marked house and install it to the residents' satisfaction
 * Check Out: teams had to visit Emmanuel's Woodshop, pick up a fantasy coffin and deliver it to a showroom across town
 * Kaneshie Market
 * Elimination Station Video: Andie & Jenna
 * Elimination Station Video: Andie & Jenna

Leg 3 - Episode 3 (Ghana)
Title: "In Phil We Trust" -- Connor
 * Akotoku Boxing Academy, Jamestown: one team member had to perform a boxing workout routine by correctly wrapping their hands, punch a punching bag for one minute and jump rope for one minute to get the next clue
 * Supply Depot, Dodowa, Accra: teams had to load two wheelbarrows with supplies and deliver them to the Aesbi D/A Primary School
 * Asebi D/A Primary School, Dodowa, Accra: teams had to join a class and locate Ghana on a map
 * Asebi D/A Primary School, Dodowa, Accra
 * Bicycle Parts: Each team member had to use a stick to roll a bicycle wheel down a soccer field and back
 * Language Arts: teams chose had to choose a proverb with highlighted phrases, translate the phrases into a series of Adinkra symbols and then find the series of symbols in a large puzzle
 * Home of Awusa Ntso, Dodowa, Accra
 * Elimination Station Video: Non-Elimination
 * Elimination Station Video: Non-Elimination

Leg 4 - Episode 4 (Ghana → Sweden)
Title: "We Should Have Brought Gloves and Butt Pads." -- Kevin
 * Kotoka International Airport, Accra, Ghana to Kiruna Airport, Kiruna, Lappland, Sweden
 * Icehotel, Jukkasjärvi
 * Michael & Kevin each had to sit for 10 minutes on chairs made of blocks of ice before continuing
 * Fjellborg's Lodge, Poikkijärv
 * One team member had to run a pack of sled dogs along a training course, capture five colored flags along the way, trade the flags for pelts and return to the start to get their next clue; if a team member, missed any flags, the team member had to complete a penalty lap for each flag missed
 * Vassijaure Train Station, Riksgränsen, Sweden
 * Sleds: teams had to race down a mountain course on TechSleds in less time than 1 minute and 58 seconds, repeating the course if they went over the allotted time
 * Beds: teams had to build a goahti, a traditional dwelling, and furnish it to the satisfaction of a tribal elder
 * Riksgränsen, on the border of Sweden and Norway
 * Elimination Station Video: Connor & Jonathon
 * Elimination Station Video: Connor & Jonathon

Leg 5 - Episode 5 (Sweden → Norway)
Title: "Tastes Like a Million Dollars" -- Kat
 * Fagernesfjellet Mountain, Narvik, Nordland, Norway
 * To claim the Fast Forward each team member had to eat a serving of a traditional Christmas delicacy, smalahove, a sheep's head
 * Skjomen Bridge, Narvik
 * Strength, stamina, and guts: you've got to have all three.: one team member had to rappel off the bridge, signal a boat to get the next clue, then climb back up to the bridge using a mechanical ascender
 * Harvika, Narvik
 * Bike: teams had to ride a bike along a course; at the end, teams had to retrieve a color and combination that matched their bikes, then return to the start and unlock their combination lock to retrieve their next clue
 * Boat: using a map, teams had to instruct a boat captain to navigate to a marked locations where teams had to disembark, and deliver two fish and a chainsaw to a resident to get the next clue
 * Ankenes Marina, Narvik
 * Elimination Station Video: Katie & Rachel
 * Elimination Station Video: Katie & Rachel

Leg 6 - Episode 6 (Norway → Russia)
Title: "Run, Babushka, Run" -- Vicki
 * Narvik Station, Narvik to Stockholm Central Station, Stockholm, Sweden
 * Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, Stockholm, Sweden to Pulkovo Airport, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 * Vasilievsky Island - Rostral Columns, Saint Petersburg
 * Classical Music: Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace- teams listened to three musical compositions (Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, and Tchaikovsky's Troika) playing on gramophones, then went into a hall and had to identify the pianists who were playing the same compositions
 * Classic Cinema: teams travelled to a famous soundstage at Lenfilm and had to search many filmstrips to find a clip from the film playing on a large screen (Sergei Eisenstein's October)
 * The next clue was either a film canister or a record; each had a picture of the next route marker on it
 * Palace Square, Saint Petersburg
 * Neighborhood store, Alexandrovskaya, Saint Petersburg
 * Who's ready for a Russian Drag Race?: one team member had to dress up like a Babushka, get a wheelbarrow, cow manure and a sack of potatoes, then return to the Babushkas and plant the potatoes
 * Saint Isaac's Cathedral, Saint Petersburg
 * Elimination Station: Via Russia
 * Elimination Station: Via Russia

Leg 7 - Episode 7 (Russia)
Title: "I Want to Be in the Circus, That's Where I Belong" -– Brook
 * Avtovo Circus, Saint Petersburg
 * Avtovo Circus
 * Circus Band: Teams must learn to play a Russian folk song using an accordion
 * Circus Clown: Teams must learn to spin plates on sticks be able to spin 10 of them without any one falling
 * Bank Bridge
 * 1 Vladimirsky Prospekt Tower
 * Church of the Savior on Blood
 * Gorodki Courts, Peter and Paul Fortress
 * Between the two of you, who is the real player?: teams had to clear three gorodki pin formations before the pins get reset
 * Naryshkin Bastion, Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg
 * Elimination Station: Michael & Kevin
 * Elimination Station: Michael & Kevin

Leg 8 - Episode 8 (Russia → Oman)
Title: "Ali Baba In A Suit" -- Nick
 * Pulkovo Airport, Saint Petersburg, Russia to Muscat International Airport, Muscat, Oman
 * Riyam Park, Burj Al Mubkharah, Muscat
 * Jebel Shams, Al Hamra
 * 'Who wants to add a little magic to their life: one team member rappelled down the side of Jebel Shams; at the bottom were hundreds of oil lamps only a few of which contained Aladdin's magic ring; once the team member found a ring, the team received the next clue
 * Stack of Books, Nizwa:
 * Water Table: teams had to pump water from a well into a water truck, drive with the truck into town and deliver the water to a house in the neighborhood of Aswat Al Eid
 * Wedding Table: team has to travel to a market, purchase 25 chickens and other ingredients, then serve the traditional Omani dish of Maqbous to a bride and groom
 * Muttrah Souq, Muttrah
 * Al Alam Palace, Muscat
 * Elimination Station: Gary & Mallory
 * Elimination Station: Gary & Mallory

Leg 9 - Episode 9 (Oman → Bangladesh)
Title: "There's a Lot of Nuts and Bullets" -– Jill
 * Muscat International Airport, Muscat, Oman to Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka, Bangladesh
 * Sundarban Square Supermarket
 * teams had to press sugarcane and one team member had to drink the glass of sugarcane juice
 * Sundarban Square Supermarket
 * Balanced Meal: teams had to pick up 30 tiffin carriers and deliver them by boat to workers on another boat in the harbor; once at the second boat, teams lifted the meals into the boat and return to shore with 10 empty carriers
 * Balanced Bricks: teams had load 100 bricks from a barge and deliver them to a shop in the nearby market
 * Sadarghat: Jill & Thomas U-Turned Brook & Claire, then Nat & Kat U-Turned Chad & Stephanie
 * Tekka Mistiri Rickshaw Garage, Nazira Bazaar
 * one team member had to properly assembly a rickshaw
 * Lalbagh Fort, Dhaka
 * Elimination Station: Chad & Stephanie
 * Elimination Station: Chad & Stephanie

Leg 10 - Episode 10 (Bangladesh → Hong Kong, China)
Title: "I Hate Chinese Food" -– Vicki
 * Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka, Bangladesh to Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong, China
 * Central Piers, Central Hong Kong to Cheung Chau Ferry Pier, Cheung Chau, Islands District
 * Cheung Po Tsai Cave, Cheung Chau
 * Cheung Chau Ferry Pier, Cheung Chau to Kowloon Public Pier, Kowloon
 * Majesty Chinese Restaurant, Tsim Sha Tsui
 * Who's feeling peckish?: using a pair of chopsticks, one team member had to identify one of five dishes of fake food from an entire buffet; if the team member picked up a real piece of food, he/she had to eat it
 * Statue of Bruce Lee, Avenue of Stars, Tsim Sha Tsui
 * Ding Ding: teams had to ride the local tram and look for three clues to the location of the Pit Stop
 * Sampan: teams went to Jumbo Kingdom's dock, collected a pair of parakeets in a birdcage and searched the harbor for a boat with the same registration number as on the birdcage
 * Statue Square, Central Hong Kong

Leg 11 - Episode 11 (Hong Kong, China → South Korea)
Title: "I'm Surrounded by Ninjas" –- Brook
 * Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong, China to Incheon International Airport, Incheon, South Korea
 * Seung-il Bridge Cheorwon, Gangwon
 * teams had to whitewater raft down the Hantan River, then were driven to Camp Casey
 * Camp Casey Dongducheon, Gyeonggi
 * "Who's ready to be all you can be?": one team member must choose a headband and find the one solder among 200 wearing same headband
 * Nick & Vicki had to clean a tank
 * Seoul World Cup Stadium
 * Full Throttle: teams went to Mok-Dong Ice Rink (목동 아이스링크), donned speed skating suits and completed a two-person relay of 24 laps to get the next clue
 * Full Bottle: teams went to Namdaemum Market to retrieve and then deliver six bottles of ginsing tonic; after the delivery, one team member had to drink a glass to the tonic to get the next clue
 * Yeouido Hangang Park (한강공원)
 * Wongudan, Seoul
 * Elimination Station: Nick & Vicki
 * Elimination Station: Nick & Vicki

Leg 12 - Episode 12 (South Korea → United States)
Title: "Hi. I'm Sorry. I'm in a Race" -– Nat
 * Incheon International Airport, Incheon to Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California, USA
 * Pier J, 266, Port of Long Beach, Long Beach
 * teams rode to the top of a gantry crane, received their next clue and then performed a bungee jump swing off the crane
 * Rose Bowl, Pasadena Teams Had To build a float Before The 2009 Rose Queen To give there Next Clue
 * teams had to solve three riddles, the answers which formed their next destination
 * Quixote Studios, Stage 7, Los Angeles
 * teams had to identify the greeters from the 11 pit stops from along the race and place them in the correct order
 * Finish Line: Greystone Mansion, Beverly Hills

Memorable Moments

 * In Leg 1 of the Roadblock, the slingshot backfired and the watermelon hit Claire in the face.
 * Chad & Stephanie left the Pit Start in Saint Petersburg over 2 hours late because they accidentally slept in. This did not affect their overall placement in Leg 8 as they came in 1st.
 * During Leg 8, Chad proposed to Stephanie, who accepted. They are the first team to change their relationship during the race.
 * Nat & Kat, Gary and Mallory drove over 9 hours during Leg 8 at Oman.

Good Situations

 * In Leg 8, Chad proposed to Stephanie, who accepted. They later won that leg won a trip to Belize which they picked as their honeymoon trip.
 * Nat & Kat making history as the first all-female team to win The Amazing Race.

Bad Situations

 * The slingshot backfired and hit Claire in the face.
 * Michael & Kevin incurring two 30-minute penalties for taking a taxi on two separate occasions without reading their clues properly; resulting in their elimination.
 * Nat & Kat, Gary & Mallory becoming lost for nine hours at Oman.
 * Jill & Thomas encountered bad taxi driver that wasted them a lot of time in final leg, resulting them to finish 3rd place of the race.

Franchise

 * The debut of the Express Pass, a pass that allows the team to skip the task they feel like they have difficulties with.
 * The debut of the Double U-Turn which allows two teams to U-Turn two different teams.
 * First season to cross the Arctic Circle.
 * First time visits to Ghana and Bangladesh.
 * Second season to have two female teams and one male-female team to finish in the top three. (Nat & Kat came in 1st, and Brook & Claire came in 2nd) (Dustin and Kandace and Charla and Mirna in All Stars).
 * First season to have two female teams to come in 1st and 2nd respectively.
 * Nat & Kat
 * First female team to win five legs in a season.
 * Most legs won by a female team in a season, five.
 * Nat, first diabetic contestant to win the race.
 * Chad & Stephanie
 * First team to evolve their relationship while they're still racing, from Newly Dating to Engaged. (Chad proposes Stephanie for marriage and she accepted in leg 8)

American

 * Most number of all-female teams, four. (tied with The Amazing Race 25)
 * No married teams.
 * Nat & Kat
 * First all-female team to win The Amazing Race.
 * Brook & Claire
 * First team survive the U-turn and make it to the final three.
 * Jill & Thomas
 * First team to receive the Express Pass and make it to the final three.
 * Nick & Vicki
 * Chad & Stephanie

Season

 * Brook is tied for the most quoted racer for the episode titles: 4 episodes.

Pitstop Greeters

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