The Amazing Race: Tougher Than it Looks

Fashion-conscious Goths Kynt Cothron and Vyxsin Fiala explain how the other teams underestimated them on The Amazing Race. With their dramatic makeup and pink and black team colours, they have been grabbing the attention of everyone who sees them.

"They saw us and they immediately thought 'Man, look at those ridiculous Goth kids, they're more concerned with their eyeliner than taking on a Roadblock'. But the fact is, we played hard, we gave our all, day in and day out," says Kynt.

Vyxsin explains

"We're kind of like little Gothic Energizer Bunnies. We just don't stop. We're stubborn like that, but in a good way. We work very well as a team in real life and we brought that to the race as well."

Around 50,000 people applied to be part of this season of The Amazing Race. Both Kynt and Vyxsin say that The Amazing Race is much harder than it looks on television. Vyxsin reveals: "Sometimes you are watching the show, and you hear Phil Keoghan say, 'Teams must run by foot to the mountain', and then it shows us run up to the mountain like it only took two minutes... when, in reality, that run took over an hour and spanned miles! There just isn't enough time in a one hour program to really show just how difficult the race experience is!"

This week, The Amazing Race takes place in Lithuania. This is where one of Kynt and Vyxsin's favourite moments on the race occurred. Vyxsin elaborates "We arrived at this festival, and were surrounded by people in costumes - as elves, goblins, faeries, maidens, dwarves, giants, and more!" Kynt adds "It was the one moment in the Race where we felt under-dressed! The magical village literally mesmerized us and we momentarily stopped racing, and began dancing and playing with all of the little creatures."

See the Goths in action on The Amazing Race, Tuesday 13 May at 7.30pm on TV2.


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