In a thrilling and nail-biting race throughout, wrestlers Taylor McPherson and Katie Mulkay are the champions of CTV’s The Amazing Race Canada Season 10. In enhancement to the title, the 24-year-olds from Alberta obtained both first-ever 2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV RS automobiles, round-the-world trip-of-a-lifetime for 2 thanks to Expedia and a $250,000 prize money.
“It just feels so good,” Mulkay informedYahoo Canada “I can’t stop smiling.”
Since the ending of Amazing Race Canada broadcast recently, the feedback McPherson and Mulkay have actually obtained has actually confirmed that their objective to truly inspire and influenced females has actually been attained, being just the 2nd women duo to win the program. Their slogan is “strong is beautiful.”
“I think it’s been amazing to watch it all unfold and to see how much we are those role models,” Mulkay stated. “And having people reach out to us and being like, ‘You two are inspirational.'”
“I never expected to be on TV. I could live my whole life without ever being on reality TV, and just seeing ourselves and watching ourselves up there, and being like, … we did make an impact on there. … People truly see us as these inspiring females. It’s unbelievable, especially as we want to promote our sport as well. Wrestling is very male-dominated sport, and to have that opportunity to show us as strong female wrestlers and be known as ‘the wrestlers’ was just an experience like no other.”
‘Slow and stable victories this race’
The last obstacle of the race showed to be a certain stumper for all the last groups, yet McPherson and Mulkay utilized the lessons they discovered throughout the whole period ahead out on the top.
In the last obstacle, which happened in McPherson and Mulkay’s home city of Edmonton, the groups made their means to the Royal Alberta Museum where they needed to set up a collection of pictures from the race in the suitable order, based upon the race timeline. With many tiny information to bear in mind, a lot of the groups began obtaining upset and disappointed, yet McPherson and Mulkay discovered that attempting to remain as tranquil as feasible is ideal the means to go.
“When we were doing that challenge Katie and I were just like, ‘Slow and steady wins this race,'” McPherson remembered. “We realized that in past challenges when people have rushed or we rush it, it hasn’t gotten us very far.”
“We literally learned our lesson in the olive oil challenge. The amount of times [Katie] and I switched our olive oil taste around, it kept screwing us over, and we lost our first place lead because of that. And so I think even just throughout this race, we learned some very valuable lessons. I think the biggest one was to just take the time and slow down.”
‘ I felt her at every minute’
While this is a group of 2, throughout the race McPherson and Mulkay have actually had a 3rd visibility, which’s Holly, Mulkay’s buddy that died ins 2014.
“I remember there was one time we woke up and I was like, ‘Holly, Holly shut off your alarm,'” Mulkay shared. “It’s like Holly was there with us the whole time. … I felt her at every moment. I would say to Taylor, it feels like we’re running with … a third person.”
“Honestly, even watching it back, I was so proud of the race we ran, also knowing that she’s looking down on us and she’s supporting us along the way. Of course, people pass away all the time, when it’s not their time, and it’s a terrible thing and I know a lot of people go through that. But just knowing that, you know what, live the life that they would have wanted you to live. … Life’s too short and you’ve got to take advantage of those opportunities. I could have easily said, ‘I don’t want to be on TV,’ or I could have second guessed it, but when Taylor asked me … I didn’t hesitate. … And look at where we are.”
Plans for $250,000 prize money
The large inquiry after an Amazing Race Canada win is, obviously, if the champions have any kind of strategies, especially for the $250,000 prize money.
“One thing we definitely want to do is go on all of our trips, but that’s got to wait a little bit because wrestling season just started,” McPherson stated. “Katie’s competing, I’m coaching. So it’s definitely going to be a little while until we can actually take those trips, but that’s OK. We’ll plan them over the next year.”
In enhancement to fumbling, McPherson is an Indigenous sporting activities program planner in Alberta and she intends to remain to discover means to assist Indigenous young people obtain associated with sporting activities.
“I kind of want to start to focus on a program and potentially starting a non-profit that I’ve been working on over the last two years, under my organization,” she stated. “To get more Indigenous youth into sport within rural communities. That’s kind of what I want to focus on over the next year.”
For Mulkay, she hasn’t pin down specifically just how she prepares to utilize her earnings, yet as a current grad she’s wanting to utilize this cash to be a lot more “independent” as she determines what her following action is.
“I haven’t had time to think about it, to be honest,” she stated. “I think the biggest thing was just, … it’s a kickstart to life.”
“It is a great amount of money to help me try to pursue other things. I am a recent graduate and trying to figure out that next part of life, this next step after graduation. I’m kind of interested to see where it goes, because I’m not entirely even sure. … We want to plan our trips and I want to be more independent in my life and things like that. So I think I’m just kind of along for the ride right now, and I’m excited to see where it takes me.”
