The Amazing Race Canada Season 10 is off to a tough start in Niagara Falls, Ont., with racers having to rappel down the side of the Horseshoe Falls, and then put their memory to the test. For Trystenne Burey and Eva Amo-Mensah, both personal trainers from Toronto, they couldn't beat the other 10 teams in the first leg of the race, being the first eliminated racers, but they're still ⁘on cloud nine⁘ after sharing their experience with their friends, families and the rest of Canada.
⁘We haven't really seen Black women like us on TV before,⁘ Amo-Mensah told Yahoo Canada . ⁘So this was the perfect opportunity to come out there and show Black Girl Magic, and show that we can do this too.⁘
⁘We really wanted to do something that was going to inspire generations to come,⁘ Burey added. ⁘We don't get to see two Black women supporting each other, ... motivating each other, often.⁘
As we see in the episode, Burey, who is afraid of heights, was the team member who repelled down the cliff, but her teammate supported her all the way through.
⁘It was definitely scary,⁘ Burey said. ⁘I think too, leading up to it, we ran from the initial starting point to the rock wall, so that in itself was exhausting.⁘
⁘Your heart is racing, you get there and you're like, 'Oh no, this is what's happening right now.' So I feel like it was definitely a whirlwind of emotions, but to have completed it, I'm so proud of myself. I wish they showed more as I was lowering down and trying to just motivate myself, I could hear Eva clearer and clearer the lower I got, and it was ... calming to know that she's there, she's rooting for me.⁘
⁘After we finished that first challenge, we kind of saw what was next and we just picked the first thing,⁘ Amo-Mensah explained. ⁘The Show Time, we didn't think it would be that much memorization.⁘
⁘People are staring at you, it's just very hard to focus and concentrate, so that's why we decided to switch to the arcade games, and honestly that worked out better for us anyways, because we're very physical people.⁘
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