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For the second year in a row a team from Alberta has taken top spot on the hit reality TV show Amazing Race Canada.
On Tuesday, Taylor McPherson and Katie Mulkay, best friends and competitive wrestlers from Calgary and Edmonton, crossed the finish line in Edmonton first to take home the grand prize on season 10 of the show.
McPherson and Mulkay won two vehicles, a trip around the world and $250,000 dollars in cash.
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“Winning The Amazing Race Canada has left us completely stunned, we’re still pinching ourselves! For the second time, we have left it all on the mat, claimed our place at the top, right here at home. It’s been a wild ride full of ups and downs and unexpected twists. A huge thank you to everyone who supported us, and a special shoutout to our angel up in the sky for keeping us on track (and for the occasional miracle)! We are proud to have shown Canada that strong is truly beautiful.”
On Tuesday’s finale, all remaining teams arrived in Edmonton on the same flight and kicked off their final leg with a footrace to the taxi stand. This leg of the race transitioned from day to night, with our winners crowned under the field lights at the Commonwealth Stadium.
Host Jon Montgomery, and all the eliminated teams, welcomed the winning team to the 50 yard line at Commonwealth Stadium, home of the Edmonton Elks CFL team, with confetti cannons.
The ladies were almost eliminated in episode 7 but were saved because it was a non-elimination leg, but pulled ahead in episode 8. They were the second team to cross the finish line during the semi-finals.
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“We never had those moments in the race where we said ‘This is it,’ ” said McPherson. “Even in that non-elim leg where we were driving to the mat, we were like ‘It’s not over until it’s over, until Jon says you have been eliminated from the race.’ For us, we just take every task as it is and complete it to our best abilities and hope that we keep pushing through. I think that’s what helped us get that far in the race, just being able to block everything else out and move forward. I think we can thank wrestling for that because it’s very similar. You can lose your first match of the tournament and it puts you all the way to the B-side and you have to bust your butt the next day to work yourself back up to that third-place medal match. It’s not over until it’s over.”
McPherson and Mulkay are the second ever all women’s team to win the show.
They both signed up because they wanted to be role models for young women and use the platform to spread a “strong is beautiful” mantra and show that “anything is possible.”
— Files from Eric Volmers
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