Madagascar (6/13? )
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the world is waiting writes ,
I heard from a reliable source that some woman had talked with one couple in the train and the couple said that they had flown from Madagascar to Helsinki and from Helsinki to Tampere and Ylöjärvi and then they had to travel with a train to Turku where they must find the cars and drive to quarry mines in Lohja
Turku & Helsinki, Finland ( 6/16)
Tarballs
More info about the Finland spoiler: Some teams and camera crews were spotted at Turku's railway station at 5:20 pm last friday. Teams drove off towards east with Mercedeses. I'll try to get some info about how many teams were seen, or what they looked like.
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the world is waiting writes ,
Sun Jun 25, 2006 3:10 am
Here's some pics in a train from Tampere to Turku
http://viltsu.net/gallery/v/Yhteiset/Matkat/Turku2006/
I heard from a reliable source that some woman had talked with one couple in the train and the couple said that they had flown from Madagascar to Helsinki and from Helsinki to Tampere and Ylöjärvi and then they had to travel with a train to Turku where they must find the cars and drive to quarry mines in Lohja. What happened after that is unknown.
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I've read and heard about people seeing the contestants climbing in the Olympic Stadium's tower in Helsinki, and Phil was spotted in a park/restaurant in Helsinki, wich could also be true.
"Yes, they were also in Tampere week ago friday (june 16th), or actually Ylöjärvi, close to my home. I heard about it from my aunt who drives a taxi, and she had taken one couple from Tampere train station to Ylöjärvi and back. They were hurrying to catch the train to Turku. My aunt was first a bit shocked when few dark skinned americans passed others in the queue and jumped to the car with a man sitting on the front seat who had a huge camera"
There was another sighting at the Helsinki train station june 16th. A "chinese" looking couple was seen running in the station with a camera man, and they had two other couples following them
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Oh and also there is some info about their "task" in Ylöjärvi. Obviously it was some kind of obstacle course at swamp
The landowner of the area is keeping his mouth shut, but nearby neighbours reported a helicopter and lots of people including security who kept the nosy ones far. The famous clue box was also seen there.
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voici la traduction (en anglais)
AMAZING RACE WAS HERE?
If the travelling route of Amazing Race would finally reach Finland, then where would
the american reality-tv makers head for? Cultural sights that we don't have, or to the
crowded national parks in Lapland? Eyewitnesses have said that production crew looking
very much like the Amazing Race was seen in the middle on June on obstacle course at swamp
in Ylöjärvi.
Foreign production crew with fire trucks and helicopters circling the sky didn't go
unnoticed by local residents, even thought that security personnel kindly prevented the curious ones
to not come too close. Contestants speaking english ran with yellow/black envelopes and cameramen
filming also a box matching the descrïptions of the series clue box on a nearby road.
The area is privately owned beautiful swamp area, which in this time of year has nests of cranes
and swans. At winter the 40 hectare swamp is used for skiing. Owner of the land area is not saying anything,
and the production team is not revealing the routes of the still unseen episodes.
If Amazing Race really visited on Pirkanmaa region, it will still take years until the
episode is seen here. Latest season shown by MTV3 was season 5, but in the US the season
currently on production would be 10th.
Belarus ( June 18th ? guessing for now )
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I got some new info,
Few sources have said that the race continued to Belarus after Finland. And I don't think it was just a connection point.
Barcelona, Spain(6/21-6/22)
letsgoracin
06-21-06, 11:20 AM (EST)
I can tell you that today and tomorrow the teams will be in Barcelona at some type of art museum or something doing something to do with a very large amount of tomatoes.
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letsgoracin has more to say about Barcelona ~
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The place they will be doing it at is here -
http://www.coloniaguellbarcelona.com/
Look for flights arriving into Barcelona at 8:35PM on the 21 (yesterday).
As I said, the event involved something with an EXTREMELY large amount of tomatoes.
No, this is not a first hand account. Don't really want to divulge the source.
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There is a probability that they fly in from Paris according to my info. I'm not sure how you guys check this, but see if there is a flight from Paris to Barcelona that arrives in Barcelona at 8:35PM yesterday via Air France.
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More info today from letsgoracing @TWOPS.
Here is my info from the June 21/22 Barcelona event. No, I will not reveal how I obtained this. I have also x'd out names of people from the show that are not important.
I have put interesting events in italics.
Schedule for Wednesday June 21, 2006:
8:00am – Crew all All WRP personnal and Prodimag staff in office.
8:30am - Location managers for GIANTS meet with Bob xxxxxx & xxxxx
9:35am xxxxxxxx 1148 Air France from Paris (xxxxxxxx Naguerol picks him up).
11:00am Mora takes xxxxxxxx & xxxxxxxxx through Giant route.
10:00am – xxxxxxx, xxxxxx & xxxxxx – REVIEW WITH LOCATION MANAGERS.
2:30pm – Cars leave for airport to pick up Executives.
3:00pm – xxxxxx, xxxxxx & Pol (loc mgr) depart for Colonia Guell. 5 Helpers to unload.
3:30pm – First Executive flight arrives – prepare to go see course. xxxx, xxxxx, xxxxx & xxxxxxxxxx join tour.
8:00pm – Security at Colonia Guell
5:00pm – 20,000 Kilos of Tomato’s deliver care of xxxxxxx Chase
5:00pm – xxxxxxxx meets xxxx Cameraman at office to go to Airport!!
5:00pm – Giants arrive at Maremagnum for Host stand up. Jarrod xxxxxxx stationed here.
6:30pm – Shoot host stand up. Jarrod assists.
7:00pm – First art picture car delivered to Colonia Guell.
7:00pm – Analysis of Tomato Pile (xxxxx, xxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxx).
7:30pm – Gates locked at hours of operation !!!!
8:35pm – Second Executive flight arrives with xxxxxxxxxxxxx and xxxxxxx
8:35pm – Possible first contestant arrival to Barcelona
9:15pm – First teams hit Hours of Operation
Schedule for Thursday June 22, 2006:
6:00am – Make room for other truck to arrive at Tomatoes (Location Manager must be there).
6:30am – Crew call all locations and office. ALL DRIVERS AND PAS.
9:00am – Craft service ready near the mat.
10:00am – Race begins !!!!
11:30am – Catering ready at pit stop hotel 11:30am to 4:00PM"[/color][/b]
Paris / NewYork , NY ( 6/24 -6/24 )
Thanks to Coretti@Twop's posts ~ (6/24)
So, uh, I think I *may* have come across racers today. I do not have actual 100% confirmation that it was TAR, but this is what I saw:
49th between 6th and Rock. Center, right outside one of the NBC entrances (not that they were going in).
All female African-American team (as mentioned in that thread that was linked to on the last page)
Getting out of a cab that was from Newark (which made it stand out more from the traditional NYC cabs).
Two crew with them - one boom mic operator, one cameraman.
The girls got out of the cab and asked a local for directions - the mic operator then had to get the person to sign a release and the team looked very impatient while they were waiting.
The biggest tip-off for me was that one of the crew had a yellow "K" tag, and having just re-watched Season 7, it looked exactly like the tags that everyone has on their bags
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jlaw
I was on a flight from Paris to New York on June 24 with 3 TAR teams - 2 young guys, 2 african american women and a man & woman.
At ticketing, my friend asked the two african american women what tv show it was for.
One of them answered, "You don't need to worry about it, just move out of the way". We wound up sitting in the bulkhead between business class and coach, near the bathrooms.
The man from the man/woman team came over to us and asked if we knew where The News Building was in New York City - he even showed us the clue.
We tried our best to help him out - even gave him some money. We asked him lots of questions, most of which he couldn't divulge.
Air France flight 8600 from Charles DeGalle to JKF. Departed 6/24 @ 825am
While walking thru airport to get to the right terminal I spotted two rugged-looking young guys, a camera man and what looked like a production person.
When we got to the terminal and checked in, the agent said they had overbooked the flight and would we mind being bumped to a later flight in exchange for $150 voucher, which we agreed to.
However, the agent said we might still be on that flight and to check back later.
We went to cash our vouchers at the ticketing office and the two young guys were there with a stack of passports, which I assume is for themselves and the crew that travels with them.
When we went back to see if we were going to be on the first flight, we saw the two guys in line to check in and that's when we saw the african american women with their own cameraman.
When we were called up by an agent, my friend walked in front of the camera, asked her question and got rebuffed.
We found out that we were going to be on the first flight and after checking our baggage, left walking in front of the camera again.
From what I could tell, each team has their own camera man and sound guy.
Plus there's someone that looks like a production person, but I'm not sure if there's one for every team.
It's difficult to tell from the pictures that have been posted if they are the ones I saw - the african american women for sure, the man/woman team in blue is a possibility.
I keep everything....
I spotted the teams in Paris.. YES, PARIS.. In Eiffel tower. I saw the clue box and camera crews on the top of Eiffel tower.. It was Friday, 23 June 2006, in the morning..
I could post some pictures if you guys want them.. Actually the crews warned me twice not to take photos of the teams..
Here are the pictures that I managed to get in Paris, Eiffel Tower.. It was Friday, 23 June, around 9 to 11 am..
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