“No but there will be no second miracle“. At the end of the final duel of the second stage of “Beijing Express: The Route of the Legendary Tribes”, broadcast this Thursday, January 23, 2025 on M6, Yoann Riou has little illusion about the contents of the envelope black that Otis and Enzo are about to discover.Elimination stage“, note, obviously disappointed with this outcome, the geek friends, beaten in Dodoma by Adrien and Patricia, the friends with a 30-year gap at the end of a close final duel.
“The tears came by themselves”
A week after their miraculous rescue – they had failed in the final duel against the Belgian cousins Mattéo and Esmeralda after the “non-eliminatory” stage 1 – the two men inaugurated this Thursday the rule, already tested in “Pékin Express”, from mystery passenger. Yoann Riou, on whom Otis and Enzo’s progress in the race depends, spared no effort to avoid a second final duel in two stages for the pair. “I feel a responsibility towards this duo. I don’t want him to be eliminated“, he notes in an interview.
But knowing that he is in 10th and last position on the road leading to the capital of Tanzania and the finish town of the second stage, Yoann Riou is disillusioned. “We’re last, it’s not possible that we don’t have a car,” he complains. But a few minutes later, his stubbornness is finally rewarded. Once in the car, Enzo, with misty eyes, expresses his admiration to the sports commentator of the L’Équipe channel.
“It’s so beautiful to see that a few days ago someone who didn’t even know my first name did everything he did for us. It’s stratospheric“, declared Enzo, grateful. It didn’t take much for Yoann Riou to break down in turn. “I’m tired“, he finally blurted out, two fingers in his eyes before taking Enzo in his arms. “We struggle so much together but we do it for us”.
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-“I almost never cried on television and here, I really cried, the tears came on their own“, analyzed Yoann Riou, already a candidate in the “Duos de choc” edition with Xavier Domergue in 2022, at the end of his new epic. “Basically, Yoann, we don’t know him, he’s a celebrity, we tell ourselves that they are unattainable people but Yoann, he’s just someone with a heart of gold. He will always fight. A super human“, concluded the geek friends who had their first experience outside of Europe with “Pékin Express.”It’s just sublime what we were able to experience. All our lives, we will remember it, it’s not even Yoann Riou anymore, it’s Yoann.” Before leaving the adventure, the geek friends decided to assign the next mystery passenger, Bruno Solo, to the internet couple, Max and Hélène.
For the second stage in a row, Étienne and Judith enjoy immunity and Amandine and Alison offer themselves the amulet
On the race side, this second stage, which began with a 12-kilometer trek in the middle of the wild beast established in the Ngorongoro crater, only confirmed the trends observed during stage 1. On the list of winners, Étienne and Judith, the lovebirds from the North, were the strongest at immunity for the second stage in a row. As for Amandine and Alison, the twins, they completed the stage and won their second amulet worth 10,000 euros. If Moâde and Ludovic, the pair of unknowns, once again signed a remarkable comeback during the trek, they have not yet converted their efforts in the moments that count.
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On Thursday January 16, the launch of season 20 of “Pékin Express” attracted 1.90 million viewers (9.7% of individuals aged 4 and over and 19.5% of FRDA-50). The second part of the program, between 10:17 p.m. and 11:32 p.m., retained the attention of 1.48 million viewers (11.1% of the public and 21.4% of the FRDA-50). The channel claimed leadership among under-50s during the evening, with a 21% audience share. On the target of 15-34 year olds, the audience share was 26%.
