The Amazing Race 14

Production

Development and filming

Contestants

Results

• A placement with a dagger indicates that the team was eliminated.
• An placement with a double-dagger indicates that the team was the last to arrive at a Pit Stop in a non-elimination leg, and had to perform a Speed Bump task in the following leg.
• An italicized placement indicates a team's placement at the midpoint of a double leg.
• A indicates that the team used the U-Turn; a indicates the team on the receiving end of the U-Turn.

Race summary

Leg 1 (United States → Switzerland)

• Episode 1: "Don't Let a Cheese Hit Me"
• Prize: A trip for two to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
• Eliminated: Preston & Jennifer

• Los Alamitos, California
• Los Angeles → Zürich, Switzerland Milan, Italy
• Zürich Milan → Locarno, Switzerland
• Locarno
• Tenero-Contra
• Locarno → Interlaken
• Interlaken
• Stechelberg
• Stechelberg

• Teams set off from the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base and drove themselves to Los Angeles International Airport, where they had to book one of two flights: the first flight carried six teams and flew to Zürich, Switzerland, while the second flight departed 25 minutes later and flew to Milan, Italy. After arriving in either Zürich or Milan, teams had to travel by train to Locarno, Switzerland. Once there, teams had to find the Church of Sant'Antonio, where they signed up for one of three departure times the next morning. In the morning, teams were given a picture and had to figure out that their next clue was located at the Verzasca Dam.
• In this season's first Roadblock, one team member had to bungee jump off the Verzasca Dam in order to receive their next clue.
• After the Roadblock, teams had to travel by train to Interlaken and then travel to the Kleine Rugen Wiese. There, teams had to transport four wheels of cheese from a shed to the bottom of a hill using traditional cheese carriers and then properly stack the wheels in order to receive their next clue. Teams then had to travel to the Hotel Stechelberg and listen for a group of yodelers, who led them to the nearby Pit Stop.

• The cheese-moving task was later revisited in season 22 as a Switchback.
• The bungee jump off the Verzasca Dam was also revisited in season 33 as a Switchback.

  Leg 2 (Switzerland → Germany → Austria)

• Episode 2: "Your Target is Your Partner's Face"
• Prize: A hybrid go-kart for each team member
• Eliminated: Steve & Linda

• Stechelberg
• Zürich → Munich, Germany
• Ruhpolding
• Schönau am Königssee
• Schönau am Königssee
• Salzburg, Austria

• At the start of this leg, teams were instructed to fly to Munich, Germany. Once there, they had to drive to the village of Ruhpolding and ride a cable car to the Rauschberg, where they found their next clue.
• In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to tandem paraglide with an instructor off a mountain to a landing area below, where their partner waited with their next clue. In the event of unfavorable winds, they had to choose between waiting an indeterminate amount of time for better conditions or taking a 60-minute hike down the mountain.
• After the Roadblock, teams had to drive to Schönau am Königssee and find the bobsled track.
• This season's first Detour was a choice between Balancing Dolly or Austrian Folly. In Balancing Dolly, both team members had to navigate Segways over a road obstacle course in order to receive their next clue. In Austrian Folly, teams had to enter a party tent and throw Bavarian pies at their partner's face. They had to take turns smacking each other in the face until they found a pie with cherry filling in order to receive their next clue.
• After the Detour, teams had to find the Holzsäger, a woodcutting workshop, and wait for the mechanical Tyrolean woodcutters to cut a piece of wood, which was stamped with the location of the Pit Stop: Schloss Hellbrunn in Salzburg, Austria.