The best of the reality series crop is back, with 12 teams of 2 players each racing around the world, trying not to be eliminated at a series of checkpoints in which the last team to arrive is booted from the show. CBS chooses teams with relationships containing at least some tension, especially when the situation involves intense pressure. This season includes such duos as two circus clowns, a gay married couple, a father and son, a recently engaged couple, married couples, and best friends.
Cast: Phil Keoghan
With the $1 million prize on the line, the final 3 teams travel to New Orleans where, after visiting 11 countries, 17 cities, and travelling more than 33,000 miles, one team will be crowned the winners.
In the first-ever city sprint, the final four teams will have no road blocks, no detours and complete every challenge as a team as fast as they can when they race through Manila, the capital of the Philippines, on the penultimate leg of THE AMAZING RACE.
The final five teams race through Siem Reap, Cambodia where they face the second and final double U-turn of the season.
The first ever "Mega Leg" in RACE history continues through Hyderabad, India where teams compete in double the detours and double the road blocks and travel double the distance.
In the first ever "Mega Leg" in the show's history, teams race through Hyderabad, India where they must complete double the detours and double the road blocks and travel double the distance.
Teams travel to Almaty, Kazakhstan where they brave the cold weather while perfecting a choreographed fight scene and decorating a yurt.
Teams reach new heights in Berlin, Germany as they walk face-first down the exterior of a building for nearly 200 feet.
Teams in Paris, France, must whip up some tasty treats and make enough Chantilly cream for four pies, as well as compete in a series of carnival games.
Teams race through Asunción, Paraguay when they compete in a series of switchback Detours, where they must either stack a pyramid of watermelons or perform a traditional Paraguayan bottle dance.
Teams are in Manaus, Brazil where they have big decisions to make when they encounter the first U-turn of the Race.
Teams race through Bogotá, Colombia where they encounter a Yield that gives them the power to stop another team's race for a designated amount of time.
"The Amazing Race" celebrates travelling 1 million miles around the world when the 32nd race kicks off from Los Angeles.