Overview
- Contestants faced the series’ feared Seven Monsters tasting challenge during Thursday’s episode, which aired on Sky Uno with streaming on NOW.
- Host Costantino della Gherardesca paired with correspondent Giulia Salemi as Le Zanzare to launch the Fariba Flag, a named penalty tied to Salemi’s past season.
- The leg stretched about 804 kilometers from Nanjing toward Dengfeng, with an early stop in Zhulong that set the pace for the day’s tasks.
- Chanel Totti struggled after drawing scorpion skewers and Michelle Masullo reacted badly to bugs, showing how the tasting test can upend teams.
- The Veloci imposed a staircase penalty on the Raccomandati earlier in the stage, and tensions now carry into the final China episode before the move to Japan.