Who Went Home on ‘The Amazing Race’ Season 34?

Aastha Lal and Nina Duong are a newly engaged couple from Marina Del Ray, Calif. Aastha had dreamed of being on The Amazing Race for a long time, and Nina was excited to make the journey with her! Unfortunately, that journey didn’t last long.

On the Season 34 premiere, the teams were challenged with tasks such as rolling a keg of beer through a series of obstacles, sawing through a log in order to get a clue, and smashing through a huge block of ice with a chisel. The last team to complete their tasks and meet Phil at Munich’s Friedensengal monument would be the first team to go home. Sadly, that was Aastha and Nina.

We were really rooting for “Team T-Rex” but sadly, this leg was not their strong suit. Even though Quinton and Mattie got so lost that they thought they had to go to Munich for this leg, they were able to squeak ahead of golf buddies Tim and Rex. This leg took teams to Innsbruck, Austria, where they had some very musical challenges.

The first was a roadblock, in which one team member had to yodel correctly with some simple dance moves. Rex went into the roadblock, but he shared that his dyslexia made it difficult to grasp the lyrics. Then, Rex and Tim decided to do the bells detour instead of the partner dance, but in doing so, they fell even more behind.

Episode 3 of The Amazing Race ended with a dreaded “To Be Continued.” However, there was a team clearly in last place. Things did not look good for Glenda and Lumumba Roberts, who were trailing far behind everyone else as they made their way through Italy.

However, this is reality TV, so anything is possible!

Motivational speakers Rich and Dom from Huntington Beach, Calif., were celebrating their third anniversary during this megaleg. Rich’s method of “using [his] senses to head toward the general direction” of the next challenge in Florence, Italy resulted in them lagging behind their competitors.

Dom struggled to stay positive during a sculpture carving challenge and almost immediately wanted to quit and take a 4-hour penalty. After she eventually revealed the sculpture, the couple chose to take the “Eye for Fashion” Detour. They were required to assemble a lookbook of models, outfits, and locations they saw around Florence. Unfortunately, they struggled in this challenge and wound up being the last team on the Pit Stop mat at the Piazza Ognissanti.

After coming in second-to-last place and nearly quitting in Episode 4, the father-daughter duo’s bad luck continued into the next round of challenges. They were in the last group to arrive at the Wadi Rum Desert in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and were the last team to complete the metal-detecting challenge and find their clue sending them to Petra.

At Al-Khazneh in Petra, Sharik and Linton chose the more physical “Camel Caravan” Detour, which only increased the gap between them and Aubrey and David. Ultimately, they were the last team to arrive at the Pit Stop mat at The Great Temple and were eliminated from the race.

Last week’s promo revealed that someone on the show had tested positive for COVID-19, so viewers already had a good idea of what to expect in Episode 6. The episode opened with eight teams waiting to hear from Phil, and with Abby and Will nowhere in sight. Unfortunately, they were the team that tested positive for the virus, and were thus eliminated from the race.

That meant that there was no threat of an additional elimination for the next leg of the race, but the remaining teams were still motivated to finish as quickly as possible. While all eight remaining teams were safe, Glenda and Lumumba Roberts struggled with the “Step by Step” dancing Detour and ended up coming in last place at the Pit Stop mat at the Nymphaeum at Amman. They’ll have to overcome a 45-minute time penalty in the next leg.

Glenda and Lumumba were in good spirits throughout this leg of the race in the The Dordogne département of France despite starting off with a 45-minute time penalty … and then driving directly into a ditch as soon as they got on the road. Thanks to a friendly neighbor and her tractor, they were back on the road in short order.

For a bit, it looked as though Aubrey and David’s navigation difficulties might knock them out of the race instead, but they were able to make it to the Pit Stop mat at the Panorama of Domme before Glenda and Lumumba, resulting in the latter team’s elimination.

Quinton and Mattie started this leg in the final departure group and found themselves struggling to keep up throughout the entire episode. They were once again plagued by navigation issues and ended up arriving at the Roadblock at the Stade Toulousain after every other team had already moved on to the Detour.

Quinton made up a ton of time by completing the Rugby challenge on his first attempt, but it unfortunately wasn’t enough. After yet another navigational challenge, Mattie and Quinton were the last to arrive at the Pit Stop mat at the Canal du Midi.

Episode 9 featured the beginning of this season’s second megaleg, so we won’t know who was sent packing until next week. That being said, things have definitely taken a turn for two teams that have been pack leaders for several weeks now: Marcus and Michael Craig, and Emily Bushnell and Molly Sinert.

Marcus fell way behind trying to recreate a Picasso painting in the first Road Block, and Emily and Molly were plagued by both Emily’s knee injury and a navigational snafu. By the end of the episode, these teams were the final two battling it out at the Fish Fry Detour, but we don’t yet know who will move on to the next part of the megaleg first. Whoever it is will definitely have their work cut out for them!

Although Emily and Molly continued to struggle with navigation and Emily’s injured leg, it was Marcus and Michael who ended up in last place at the Pit Stop this episode. They were the only team who chose the “Bend Over Backward” Detour in Andalusia, and it took them two attempts before their brick-and-stone archway was deemed stable. Although Michael blazed through the final Roadblock in a single try, it wasn’t enough to secure the brothers’ place in the final four.

Aubrey and David are a new couple from Los Angeles. The duo fell in love when David came to Aubrey’s dance studio hoping to take classes, and she spotted him from across the room. Will their new relationship survive the test of The Amazing Race?

Fans of Big Brother might recognize Derek and Claire, who competed on the show’s 23rd season. While on Big Brother, the duo worked against each other. Now on The Amazing Race, they’ll work together to compete, which might give them an advantage.

Long-lost twins Emily and Molly — from Ardmore, Pa. and Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., respectively — met just one year prior to signing up for The Amazing Race, when they learned about each other through DNA testing. They decided to enter the competition to spend more time with one another — and win a million dollars, of course!

Married couple Luis and Michelle from Miami are looking to start the next chapter of married life by dancing their way across the globe with The Amazing Race. Their goal is to “enjoy” the experience rather than “attacking” it, but how far will that get them in the competition?