What had happened was that Lena wasn't searching the unrolled hay bales thoroughly enough...after her team's elimination, production told her that she had missed at least four clues. :(

The production team told her later she had missed 4 clues. The lesson here is this: it is not only how hard you have to work, but also how careful you have to work.

I admire the great effort she put into that search. She was relentless to say the least, ultimately undone only by unfathomable bad luck.

I heard Lena had missed four clues. Imagine if the camera panned in on an unnoticed clue while Lena was busy rolling the hay. That would’ve been a pretty cruel edit on the producers part.

I remember watching this in 2005, and it was the amazing race episode that really stuck with me the most, the persistence of those girls working late into the night never giving up was amazing.

Just brutal. No other way to put it. Much respect to her for going that long. Most wouldn't be able to.

If there was 270 hay bales and 20 clues hidden then each team would on average have to unroll about 14 hay bales before finding their clue. It’s crazy unlucky that Lena unrolled about 100 and could find the clue

That has to be the most disheartening thing i think ive ever seen. She must have been so tired

I really dont like “finding a needle in a haystack” style of challenge. It all depends on luck

You just know she had to have unrolled at least one and overlooked it. The odds of her not uncovering at least one are near zero. I wish they’d come back and try again.

she would've been better off time-wise if she just immediately quit the roadblock and took the penalty right

Such a tough and grueling roadblock. I feel really sorry for Lena and it’s a shame that her and Kristy have not yet returned for a second chance because I feel they deserve to race again.

I would’ve shat my pants if I found out I rolled out that many hay bales for that long

This was the Dark Souls of Roadblocks.

“Who’s going to go for hay Victoria”. Jonathan just says it’s her.

Lena and Kristy for unfinished business 2 (if it ever exists)

Isn’t there a shot or two that she has missed the clue? It was so long ago I don’t recall it though.

Wow. Lena took a long time to do this! I appreciate that she kept going and I feel so bad for her. I wish Lena completed the roadblock and her and Kristy lasted longer in the race instead of Jonathan and Victoria who were just flat-out mean.

It's cruel that it was an elimination challenge.

The sisters should have been called back to participate in the Unfinished Business season

I remember this part

Bad luck gone too far 😔

This breaks my heart 💔💔

This is cruel. When the last team enter the pit stop Phil could've just made it right away to the field to stop them to avoid tiresome if this was a determined elimination leg anyway

The producers of this show should've brought back teams like Lena & Kristy and Nancy and Emily (a team from season 1) for the Amazing Race season 11 (All Stars season) instead of teams like Bill and Joe and Eric and Danielle.

It's a shame because they were the best team on this unbearable season.

Did not pit-stop Elimination for 2004-Present