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Amazing Race 15: Gary And Matt Discuss Their Journey
November 17, 2009 01:00 PM by Britteny Elrick
I mean, we weren’t going to point it out again but really Matt? You lost the race because you didn’t know what a candelabra was? The father-son duo, Gary and Matt Tomljenovich, spoke with PEOPLE about their journey on The Amazing Race and those itty bitty mistakes that cost them the race…
PEOPLE: You had a great run for two people who had spent so little time together in recent years. What was your strategy?
Gary: We went in trying to put our many differences aside. We realized we had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and we wanted to take advantage of it to the best of our ability. In order to do that, we had to get along. We set the goal early on to have fun and that eased a little bit of the stress.
PEOPLE: Matt will forever be the guy who didn’t know what a candelabra was. Matt?
Matt: I’d never heard that word in my life. We weren’t told to look for something with a number on it. It just said find the candelabra that will lead you to the next room. When you don’t know what it is, it’s difficult. And by the time we arrived, there was only one left sitting on the table. There wasn’t a line of them so it isn’t obvious that’s what you’re supposed to grab.
Gary: When you’re running behind, you don’t see other teams carrying them around. There are advantages to running the Race with other teams. You feed off of them. To his credit, he figured it out deductively and actually made up some time we lost doing the speed bump.
PEOPLE: Your goal was to become closer through racing. What was the most important thing you learned about each other?
Gary: Whenever Matt did a roadblock, he knocked them right out — water in the desert, ducks, bell counting, destroying the VCRs. To see him step up like that was huge. It makes a father proud.
Matt: My dad doesn’t give up, but I learned that he was human. Growing up, he was the father figure who seemed perfect and I idolized him. But I realized he makes mistakes and it brought us closer. He wouldn’t have been able to do this alone and that made us seem like equals.
PEOPLE: Did the closeness stick?
Gary: We have talked more in the last two months than we have in the last two years. It’s carried through. [Harlem Globetrotter] Big Easy lost his dad a few days before we started and he was my age and he had to watch Matt and I competing together, which was hard, and we sat down and had a couple of really good talks about it and it made me appreciate sharing the experience with Matt all the more.
You can check out the entire interview at People.com.
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