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Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations.

This documentary captures the incredible recovery of World Champion and Olympic favorite Noelle Pikus-Pace from a bobsled accident that happened 114 days before the 2006 Torino Olympics. Noelle was struck by a bobsled and suffered a compound fracture to her right leg during the US Team trials of the Olympic year. A captivating story and miraculous comeback to make it on the US Olympic team.

The first intoxication of love gives way to a kind of high-altitude fever for Hannes: the air at 1800 meters altitude is slowly becoming too thin for the Hamburg sea dog. He misses the sea air and the sound of the sea - and of course his fish trade. When the picturesque idyll in the alpine heights finally got to be too much for him one day, he decided to flee back to his beloved hometown of Hamburg. However, not everything is for the best there either: Hannes' fish shop is broke. In order to make ends meet, the penniless Hannes hires himself out as a hooker in a nightclub in St. Pauli. Meanwhile, his spirited wife Rosa is seething with anger and disappointment. But she doesn't want to give up the love of her life that easily. She follows Hannes to the Elbe to talk to him. However, the jealousy of the planned reconciliation thwarts the plan. As soon as she arrives in Hamburg, Rosa meets a likeable EU Commissioner who invites her to dinner with the American Secretary of Commerce. Of course, the jealous Hannes doesn't let this "flirt" sit on him. In order to prove to Rosa that he still has great chances with women, the bon vivant ties up with an extremely attractive pharmaceutical representative.

The six teams depart from the Pit Stop in Marrakesh and learn that they need to fly to Munich, Germany, 1,500 miles away. Once there they must make their way to a statue called Friedensengel and locate Kasperle, a famous German and Austrian children's puppet to find their next clue. Teams scramble for flight connections while others get standby tickets. Once there, teams are told to travel 50 miles by train to Innsbruck, Austria where teams discover a Fast Forward, involving a surfer. For one lucky team, this break allows them to travel directly to the Pit Stop. The other five teams encounter a Detour involving either going bobsledding or completing a relay race. Upon completing the task, teams next arrive at the Roadblock location where one team member must descend 230 feet on rescue cable to receive their next clue. All teams excel on this task. Near the end, teams find themselves in a foot race against other teams to avoid last place and a possible elimination, but one team stumbles, costing them the race.