Mai & Oliver

Visa "Mai" Sarasas and Oliver Faivre are a team of Friends on The Amazing Race Asia 3.

The two got off to a strong start by winning the first leg, but spent the next two legs thereafter fighting to even stay in the race. Although they appeared to be developing back into a solid team after a 3rd place finish in Taiwan, things took a turn for the worse during the next leg when they spent all day trying to complete a needle-in-a-haystack task that involved searching among thousands of Blu-ray discs for one that displayed a correct message. They eventually decided to quit the task, and things got even worse when their taxi broke down. Having already gone through a brutal day, they decided to spend the night sleeping in a car rather than continue on with the leg. This put them significantly behind the other teams, and the next morning, host Allan Wu came out to their resting location to eliminate them in 6th place, as all the other teams had long since checked in.

Profile[]

Retrieved from axn.asia.com^[1]

Mai[]

Age: 24
Occupation: Actress & Model
Hometown: Thailand

Oliver[]

Age: 25
Occupation: Model & Student
Hometown: Thailand

Oliver started out as a friend of her brother, and Mai first got to know him when she was dating one of his friends. Fate threw them together, but not in any romantic way, but as best friends.

In a way, actress and model Visa Sarasas, or Mai, as she is known to her friends, is the one person that Oliver Faivre can behave naturally in front of.

"She is the only girl friend that I have who I can talk normally to," says the 26 year old model and student, adding, "She is someone I don't necessarily have to be polite to."

Such honestly is the culmination of seven years of friendship and the friends have decided to celebrate by taking part in the race simply because Mai asked and Oliver agreed.

"I picked him because I think he has the most potential to go on this race and be able to cope with all the situations that will happen," describes the actress, who has made a name of herself starring in movies and television shows in Thailand.

In case you think of her as a celebrity who is more used to assistants and an entourage of helpers, think again. For her audition video, Mai simply tied up her hair (sans make up!) to speak to the camera, and in fact, her real life persona is nothing like her sultry on-screen roles on TV and magazine covers.

She proclaims, "I joined The Amazing Race Asia because I want to travel around the world and compete with myself."

Given the history of male/female pairings in race history that have led to explosive confrontations during the competition, Mai is thankful that her team does not fall within the usual stereotypes of such pair ups.

"The fact that my teammate is a guy, and we're not in a relationship so I don't think we're going to fight like lovers do," she says as a matter of fact.

"I have a very strong teammate and I think I'm a very strong girl as well. Our weakness would probably have to be the fact that we have never worked together as a team so I cannot predict what's going to happen when we do."

Assure Oliver, "You don't have to worry about the fighting. We fight a lot, but it's for fun. We will make the show interesting."

Not that it matter to Oliver, who is looking at the race as more of a chance to meet new people, and maybe do something for a good cause.

The Amazing Race Asia 3[]

Race History[]

Mai & Oliver's Race History
Episode	Leg	Destination(s)	Detour Choice (underlined)	Roadblock Performer	Placement	Notes
1	1	Thailand	Race / Rice	No Roadblock	1 of 10
2	2	Thailand → Vietnam	Sampan / Some Walk	Mai	8 of 9
3	3	Vietnam	Sticks / Stalks	Oliver	6 of 8
4	4	Vietnam → Taiwan	Shoot It / Shape It	Oliver	3 of 7
5	5	Taiwan	Did not perform		6 of 6	^[1]
				Average	4.80
Legend: The team finished in first place The team finished in last place and was eliminated from the race The team finished in last place in a non-elimination leg The team that won The Amazing Race The team that crossed the Finish Line second The team that crossed the Finish Line third ► The team used the Fast Forward pass > The team used the Yield < Recipient of the Yield ⊂ The team used the U-Turn ⊃ Recipient of the U-Turn
Notes: 1: Mai & Oliver failed to complete the leg after having fallen too far behind the other teams during the leg's first task. Hours after all the teams had checked in, Mai & Oliver still had not unable to locate the Roadblock location, as they did not do the Detour. Allan came over to the area where they had spent the night and eliminated them.

Trivia[]

Franchise[]

Mai, along Pailin Rungratanasunthorn, is the first full Thai blood contestant to compete in the whole Amazing Race franchise.
Mai & Oliver are the first co-ed team of Thai citizens.