Biggest Loser Australia 3×66: Eliminee Super Challenge
Tonight on The Biggest Loser, the super duper mega eliminated contestants challenge of awesomeness begins!
It’s Cosi, Nicola and Michelle versus Michael, Sheridan and Shannan.
Oh and Commando Steve will be partnering Bryce and Michelle, but nobody wants them to win, right? RIGHT?
Would you like to read what happens during the starting bits of the challenge but probably not the end which will be on Sunday? Well then, read on!
Everyone starts the day nervous and excited, ready for the Super Challenge.
The Final Four… Aren’t going to go watch. Boo!
They’re in the gym training and Alison says they’ve got to keep training hard. “It’s our House!” Kirsten says.
They’ve done the hard yards and now two people could come back in and knock them out.
Speculation turns to who might get through. Alison thinks Commando/Bryce/Michelle is the best chance, though thinks the Michelle/Cosi/Nicola might also be a chance.
Sam’s hoping it’s not Michael and Sheridan because they’d be good chances of pushing him below the Line.
Garry says he hopes whoever comes back in enjoys their stay because it won’t be very long!
Off at the Super Challenge and Ajay’s there in a sort of moss green dress. It’s alright, I suppose.
They’re on the beach, lots of sand dunes.
Whichever two contestants win the Challenge, they’re back in the game. Lose and you go home.
And for the first time ever, Shannan, Michelle and The Commando will be participating.
Michelle and Commando both say they’re there to get their team back into the finals!
Ajay lays out the challenge. First bit is a huge drop down a sand dune.
Bryce thinks to himself that they did it on Day One and he’s fitter and stronger now.
They’re racing to release a flag. They’ll need 11 bales of hay, stacked together, to reach the flag release.
To get the bales, they’ll have to burrow under a steel bar, climb over a wall, then under another steel bar. Then they get to the pile of hay. Each bale weighs 15kg.
Cosi says The Commando having Michelle on his team will slow them down and on Shannan’s team, Sheridan will slow them down. Cosi, Nicola and Michelle are relatively strong.
There’s still one more piece to the challenge, though.
To ensure each trio is working together, the members of each team will be tied together.
Sheridan’s a little freaked out at that. Guess her and Michael don’t go in for that sort of thing?
They all tie off and get their gloves on to protect their hands on the bales.
Bryce says the Commando is a freak. He’s heard stories about him jumping out of airplanes, through bus windows (?) and leaping buildings with a single bound. Bryce is very confident The Commando can get them through.
Everyone has their game face on as Ajay raises the starting pistol.
Sheridan says the descent down the sand dune was terrifying, it was like falling.
Black Team’s strategy for digging under the first steel bar is to have two on each side, one in the middle, trying to dig it all in one go.
Michelle’s team is a little behind, but they squeeze tiny Michelle under to help dig from the other side. The Commando’s team beat them though, as he’s already under there and getting his team to the next wall!
Cosi’s not going to lose it to a guy who’s paid by the decibel and wears sunglasses 24/7 and two other clowns from the dull Black Team!
The Commando, Bryce and Michelle get over the wall and to the second steel bar first.
Shannan’s team gets there second, but Michael falls “arse over tit”, he says. Tying them together makes things difficult!
Sheridan manages to wiggle under the next bar face up. Her boobs get squashed quite badly, but she makes it!
Then Michelle tries to go under face first and gets her teeny tiny body nearly stuck, but she wriggles and jiggles and gets through.
The Commando’s team is all tangled up at the hay bales, but eventually sort themselves out just before Cosi’s team gets there.
Shannan’s confident his team can make up some ground.
The Commando’s team has taken five bales first up – the boys are carrying two a piece and and Michelle is carrying one. Both the other teams take 6.
Shannan’s team get their bales down to the bottom and decide to head back up to the top as the other team’s are doing. Apparently they don’t have to shove the bales under the steel bar, which is disappointing. They’re allowed to lob them over the top.
The Commando’s team has to grab 6 the next time to make sure they kept up with the other team’s. Michelle’s having a lot of trouble, almost dropping one of them but she recovers.
Cosi says the heat was getting to be a problem but what was unexpected was how much the hay rubbing on his legs would end up hurting. It’s breaking through the skin. Combined with the heat, the flies and the sand and they’re doing it pretty tough.
The Commando’s team get back to the wall first and start lobbing bales over the top.
That brings the competitive spirit out in Michelle who doesn’t want to lose!
Michelle the fatty says she was starting to feel a little shaky at this point but The Commando says there’s no time for niceties, fall down if you want, just keep going!
Shannan’s team is in third, but Sheridan says they’re working well together as a team and feeling strong.
Sheridan and Shannan wiggle underneath on their back but Michael ignores them and tries to go underneath bellydown. And gets stuck!
Some more wriggling sets him free, but that’s slowed them down a little bit.
Commando’s team get over the wall ahead of Cosi’s team, but he’s not too worried at that point because he knows Michelle will struggle with the hill.
Michael says being tied together made it tough, especially on Shannan who is a lot fitter than himself and Sheridan.
Commando is urging his team along. They’re lugging the bales up a short way, putting them down, lifting them again, slowly crawling up the hill.
The Commando is trying an interesting strategy. They get the bales halfway up and leave them there, heading back down the hill to get the rest.
Nicola’s breathing heavily and panting away, and she says Michelle is the same and sweating, which was good to see!
Shannan says he had no doubt Michael and Sheridan were giving him 100%, but it made him realise how far off the pace they were compared to those who have only just left the House.
At one point Shannan says to Sheridan to leave her bale behind and just follow him and Michael up the hill so they can lug.
Cosi’s team gets their first load to the top of the hill.
Michelle’s whimpering and whining and carrying on, Cosi says. Fair characterisation. The Commando’s not having much of it either, telling her to come on and keep going.
Eventually The Commando is carrying all her bales too. Cosi says he was like a draught horse pulling a team with a lame horse in it.
It’s very close, Bryce says, but The Commando’s worrying about how to lay out the hay bales, which is very typical of him.
Meanwhile Shannan and his team continue to soldier on. Sheridan isn’t carrying any bales, just Shannan and Michael.
Shannan knows the odds are stacked against them, but he’s not giving up.
Interestingly Michelle is struggling the most in the Cosi, Nicola and Michelle team. But they’re all soldiering on.
At one point Cosi looks down the hill and sees one solitary bale, which he thinks has probably cost someone the race. Whose is it?
And Sunday night the challenge concludes, of course.
And nobody is happy to see whoever comes back into the game.
And at the weigh in… “I just made a rather large accusation and it’s probably going to cost me!” – Kirsten
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