An excellent elimination featured the eighth stage of Beijing Express 2024 – The Dragon’s Route.
The seventh stage was non-eliminating, so the Italy Argentina came close to elimination, however managing to save himself at the last minute. The eighth stage takes place in Sri Lanka and has a length of 387 kilometers: from the ancient fortress of Galle to the eternal city of Kandy. For the second time in this edition of Beijing Express – The Dragon’s Route, the pairs of competitors have one at their disposal smartphones. The Friends immediately choose to penalize Fratm, who however recover without problems. One of the most interesting tests is the one in which couples have to eat very spicy food. The Pastry Chefs arrive first in the Red Book, but have broken the rules by photographing the Friends’ map and therefore slip to last position. So they become first the Dancers, second the Amiche and third the Fratm. Italy and Argentina are fourth. The Friends win the advantage test. Malus to Italy Argentina.
The eighth stage of Beijing Express 2024 – The Dragon’s Route ended with the final victory for the Pastry Chefs. Second position for the Friends, third for Italy and Argentina. Fratm are second to last, last position for the Ballerinas.
To qualify for the semi-final they are therefore the Pastry Chefs, the Friends, the Italia Argentina and the Dancers.
There couple eliminated in this stage of the travel reality show hosted by Costantino Della Gherardesca is that of Fratm.
The Pastry Chefs – Damiano and Massimiliano Carrara: vote Stracotta cream. “Mount, don’t worry” Damiano says to his brother after Massimiliano himself has lost the map of the stage. Only to then tell him: “You had it in your backpack.” Good thing he shouldn’t have cared. Damiano’s loyalty towards his Friends is so crystal clear that no one can empathize with them. And even in the case of the spicy food test, he is always the one who disputes everything. Then one wonders why he and his brother see each other once a year. Cute as an angry cat under the sheets.
The Fratm – Artem and Antonio Orefice: Photocopy rating. In the first stages they livened up the race a bit, then they slowly turned in on themselves. Artem does nothing but remember that he was disadvantaged as a child, Antonio Orefice always repeats the refrain “We want to tell a true story, we want to take Naples around”. In short, tedium.
Le Amiche – Maddalena Corvaglia and Barbara Petrillo: I vote Avercene. They play a little cunning with the Ballerinas and this shows that they know what they’re doing. Nothing scares them, they eat chilli as if nothing had happened. “Madam, we are the winners but you don’t know it”: they are wonderful. And then they smile, laugh heartily, face all the difficulties without railing against anyone and without accusing each other, but always looking for the solution rather than complaining about the problem. And then they are empathetic even with those they don’t know. Sorry if it’s not much. Let them win. Right away. Very immediately.
Italy Argentina – Estefania Bernal and Antonella Fiordelisi: vote for Aquaman. “The god of the sea is called Aquaman” says Antonella Fiordelisi. Lord take me now. As always, Antonella Fiordelisi is the more rejecting and vindictive of the two. She’s the type who, if she loses at trumps, makes you replay the game until she manages to win. Appease her. I think Antonella Fiordelisi is still wondering what Barbara Petrillo meant when she talked about “Idem sentire”. No, she doesn’t eat herself.
The Dancers – Megan Ria and Maddalena Svevi: vote Gnek Gnek. Their pair creaks in this stage and this makes them look like any giants. It’s a shame, because they are absolutely not like that. On the contrary. They are usually lively, bubbly, energetic. This time they had a low-key moment, but they immediately recovered. Luckily, since they deserve to be protagonists until the final.
