Amazing Race (France)

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For Season 1 of the American Version, see The Amazing Race 1.

Amazing Race (France) is the first installment of the reality television show, Amazing Race (France). It premiered on October 22, 2012 on D8. The show features nine teams of two who are in a pre-existing personal relationship, and follows the various challenges that they undertake as they race around the world to win €50,000.

Teams

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Main article: Amazing Race 1 Teams

Results

The following teams participated in the Race. Placements are listed in finishing order:

Photo	Team	Relationship	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
File:FrancisBenjamin.jpg	Francis & Benjamin	Father/Son	7th	4th	2nd	5th	2nd	1st					1-4
File:AnthonySonya.jpg	Anthony & Sonja	Cyber Friends	2nd	5th2	7th«	2nd	1st	2nd					3-2
File:StéphanieAlice.jpg	Alice & Stéphanie	Surfers	5th	2nd	4th	3rd	5th	3rd					2-3
File:HeïdiMichel.jpg	Heïdi & Michel	Bikers	1st	6th2	3rd	1st	3rd	4th					1-4
File:HadjYacim.jpg	Hadj & Yacim	Childhood Friends	3rd	3rd	6th	6th	4th	5th					3-2
File:OucéniLassana.jpg	Oucéni & Lassana	Twins	8th1	1st	1st»	4th	6th	Eliminated 4th					1-3
File:MathildeSéverine.jpg	Mathilde & Séverine	Parisians	4th	7th	5th	7th	Eliminated 3rd						1-2
File:FabienAurélien.jpg	Fabien & Aurélien	Police Officers	6th	8th	Eliminated 2nd								1-1
File:AntoineHéléna.jpg	Antoine & Héléna	Belgian Couple	9th	Eliminated 1st									1-0

Notes

1: Oucéni & Lassana lost their key for the Pont des Arts task. They were able to continue racing, receiving a new key, but incurred a 20-minute penalty once landed in Dubai.
2: Anthony & Sonja and Heïdi & Michel initially arrived 5th and 6th respectively, but were issued a 5-minute penalty for taking a taxi to Wat Arun instead of the ferry. This did not affect their placement.

Red = team eliminated.
Orange = non-elimination leg.
Coral = leg number had no mandatory rest period at the Pit Stop and ordered to continue racing.
Purple = team used the Express Pass.
Blue = team who came in last on an elimination leg was saved by the team with the Salvage Pass.
Fuchsia = team used the Salvage Pass to gain a time advantage.
Green ƒ = team won the Fast Forward.
Yellow > = team used Yield • < = team received Yield.
Brown » = team used U-Turn • Brown « = team received U-Turn.
Gold ∪ = team penalized for Automatic U-Turn.
Blue H = team penalized with a Hazard.

Legs and Episodes

Race Elements
Route Information • Detour • Roadblock • Fast Forward • Yield • Intersection • U-Turn •
Speed Bump • Hazard • Pit Stop

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Means of Transportation Required:

Air travel • Bus • Ferry • Train • Car • Bicycle

Leg 1 - Episode 1 (France → United Arab Emirates)

• Starting Line: Parc de Saint-Cloud – Rond-point de la Balustrade, Paris, France
• Pont des Arts, Paris
  • Teams were required to search among thousands of locks for one of the hundred padlocks with the Amazing Race flag that the key given them in the clue envelope would open. Once they found the correct lock, the teams would exchange it for their next clue from a young couple.
• Flight from Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris to Dubai International Airport, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Rub' al Khali desert, Dubai
  • Pearls: Teams had to find and count, with the help of a sieve, the exact number of pearls in a earthenware jar filled with sand. Once the exact number of pearls was given to the pearler, accompanied by all the pearls contained in the jar, teams could receive their next clue.
  • Camels: Teams, with the help of a camel, had to retrieve two bags of hay and deliver them to the cameleer. While one teammate must ride the camel, the other one need to guide the animal along the path. Both team members must hang the bags of hay on the camel by the themselves. Once the hay had been brought back, teams would receive their next clue from the cameleer.
• Skydive Dubai, Dubai
  • Teams had to travel to a nearby aerodrome to sign up for one of three flights. The designated teammate for the task must then board the chosen aeroplane and perform a 4,000 meters (13,000 ft) tandem skydive. If they jump within a 10 minute time limit, they received their next clue from an instructor once on the ground. Otherwise, they must wait out a 4-hour penalty.
• Burj Khalifa – Observation Deck, Dubai
• Mall of the Emirates – Ski Dubai, Dubai
  • Teams had to take snow with the help of buoys and shovels and carry it outside, where the temperature was approximately 50 °C (122 °F). They then had to build a 1m40 snowman before the snow melted to receive their next clue.
• Atlantis, The Palm, Dubai

Leg 2 - Episode 2 (United Arab Emirates → Thailand)

• Flight from Dubai International Airport, Dubai, United Arab Emirates to Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok, Thailand
• Klong Toey Market, Bangkok
  • Taste: Teams had to share and eat two bowls of traditional Thai dishes; the first one containing two scorpions, and the second one, three cockroaches. Once they've eaten all of the insects contained in their plates, teams could receive their next clue from the chef.
  • Supplies: Teams were given a shopping list completely written in Thai and buy, with their own money, all of the ten ingredients on the list. Once they brought back all the food to an old lady, they could exchange it with their next clue.
• Davis Bangkok Hotel, Bangkok
  • Teams had to sign up for two different departure times for the next morning, 7:30 and 8:00.
• Wat Pho – Phra Chedi Moo Ha, Bangkok
  • Teams had to find a young student near the Phra Chedi Moo Ha. They were left to figure out that there were four Chedi, and the student was located beside one of them.
• Tha Tien Cross River Ferry Pier, Bangkok to Wat Arun Ferry Pier, Bangkok
• Wat Arun, Bangkok
  • One team member had to to climb the stairs of Wat Arun to the top section and count the statues. Once the correct number (100) is told to a Thai dancer on the ground, they would receive their next clue. But if they tell the wrong number, they would have to climb again and re-count all the statues before they could give a new answer to the dancer.
• Elephant Stay Reserve, Ayutthaya
  • Teams had to ride an elephant into the river, where they would have to wash off the traditional markings painted on it to receive their next clue.
• Ayutthaya Historical Park – Wat Phra Mahathat, Ayutthaya

Leg 3 - Episode 3 (Thailand → Japan)

• Flight from Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok to Narita International Airport, Tokyo, Japan
• Shibuya Crossing, Shibuya
  • Teams had to spot the Amazing Race logo on one of the giant screens, that would after show them a keyword written in Japanese, appearing for ten seconds at each two minutes. Teams were left to figure out that this word meant Hachikō and that they were directed to go to the Hachikō statue in front of the Shibuya Station. A young Tokyoite located beside the statue would then exchange the word Hachikō for their next clue.
• Shibuya Station - Hachikō Statue, Shibuya
• Capsule Land Hotel, Shibuya
  • Teams had to sign up for seven different departure times for the next morning, where they would receive their next clue, the first one at 8:00 and the last at 9:00, each one separated by ten minutes.
• Kaminarimon, Asakusa
• Raichukaikan Temple, Asakusa
  • One team member had to grab their next clue from a young sumotori while wrestling against him. If the team member steps outside the red circle or fall on the ground before grabbing their clue, they would have to wait five minutes, or more if there are others teams, to restart the combat.
• Jingu Bashi Bridge, Harajuku
  • Teams had to find, with the help of a drawing of the character given them in the clue envelope, a person dressed as Son Goku, the main protagonist of the manga series Dragon Ball. Teams would have to give them a gift of pink color in exchange of their next clue.
• Hikawa Jinga-Shibuya Temple, Shibuya
  • Nouilles (Noodles): Teams had to deliver six bowls of noodles to the restaurant's customers, located at a distance of 150 meters from the starting point, while wearing a traditional dress and a pair of geta to receive their next clue. When delivered, the soup contained in the bowls must be filled up to the red pattern, if not, teams would have to restart everything.
  • Poissons (Fishes): Teams had to catch fifteen goldfishes with the help of a rice paper landing net to receive their next clue.
  • Oucéni & Lassana U-turned Anthony & Sonja.
• Odaiba Park, Odaiba

Leg 4 - Episode 4 (Japan → United States)

• Flight from Narita International Airport, Tokyo to Honolulu International Airport, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
• Pearl Harbor - USS Missouri, Pearl City
  • One team member had to decipher their next destination (Kawela Bay), which would be presented to them through the use of Flag semaphore. Teams were given a list of flag positions representing each letter, but they would have to memorize it before a naval officer would present them with their destination.
• Kawela Bay
  • Teams signed up for departure times the following morning. The first four teams would depart at 8:45am, and the last three would depart at 9:00am.
• Magic Island, Honolulu
  • Glace Pilée (Crushed Ice): Teams needed to fill a bucket with crushed ice using a traditional saw on a block of ice to receive their next clue.
  • Pierre Cassée (Broken Stone): Teams had to take a surfboard out to a buoy in the water (using the traditional Hawaiian standard of standing upright on top of it), retrieve a 2kg stone from beneath it, and return it to shore. They would then have to use a chisel to break the stone and retrieve their clue from inside.
• Secret Island, Kualoa Ranch, Kualoa Valley

Leg 5 - Episode 5 (United States)

• Flight from Honolulu International Airport, Honolulu to Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California
• Venice Beach, Los Angeles
  • Pic à Glace (Ice Pick): Teams had to take control of an ice-cream vendor and sell ice cream cones to locals where hey had to make US$30 and had to sell each cone for at least US$2 to receive their next clue.
  • Picasso: Teams had to convince locals to let them paint caricatures of them. They had to sell these and make US$30 to receive their next clue.
  • After the Detour, teams would receive a CD containing nine French versions of classic Disney songs. They would have to memorize the names of these songs while listening to the CD on the way to the hotel of their overnight rest.
• Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
  • Teams had to locate a saxophonist, who would be playing one of the nine songs from the CD ("The Bare Necessities"). Teams would have to correctly identify this song to receive their next clue.
• Hollywood Walk of Fame, Los Angeles
  • Teams had to locate four stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame using a photograph of four peoples' heads edited onto Mount Rushmore: Sylvester Stallone, Michael Jackson, Steven Spielberg and Meryl Streep. Once they had located all four and taken a picture of each, they would give them to a woman dressed as Marilyn Monroe in exchange for their next clue.
• Golden Oak Ranch, Canyon County, Santa Clarita
  • One team member had to successfully perform a burnout in a car on a movie set to receive their next clue.
• Venice Beach, Los Angeles

Records

Franchise

• First international version to visit the United States.