It may have taken until the very end, but Canberra finally got its chance to shine on the Amazing Race Australia.
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While the final three teams on the reality show may have been the stars, Canberra got to play a cameo role in the 24th and final episode.
Although Canberra's time in the spotlight was brief, many of the city's major landmarks featured prominently in the down-to-the-wire final leg, and not a single team got lost on a roundabout or somehow ended up over the border in Queanbeyan.
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Lake Burley Griffin was the site of the first challenge for the final teams after touching down from Sydney, with one person from each team tasked with riding a fliteboard on the lake for 10 seconds, which proved to be a difficult task.
If somehow braving the conditions of Lake Burley Griffin wasn't enough, they had to dress up like High Court justices at the same time, which certainly would have made for quite the sight for those doing their bridge-to-bridge runs at the same time.
Although the challenge called for teams to ride the board on the lake standing up for 10 seconds, the real challenge would have been to avoid the high levels of algae in Lake Burley Griffin when they fell in.
While none of the teams emerged from the depths sporting green skin, NSW cowboy Jackson from one of the last-remaining teams was seen later in the final leg vomiting several times after saying he had swallowed some lake water earlier on.
Teams then had to race to the lawns of Parliament House to complete two puzzles, putting together giant Australian and Aboriginal flags.
It wouldn't be a visit to Canberra without some pollie spotting, but it wasn't an MP from up on the hill who featured as a judge for the puzzle challenge.
Instead it was an MLA from the ACT's Legislative Assembly who was on hand, with Labor frontbencher Tara Cheyne handing out clues to the teams.
Despite the myriad of other challenges the teams could have undertaken in Canberra, the two challenges were the only ones to take place in the ACT.
From there, teams were taken by helicopter to Thredbo to carry out their final challenges, which culminated in a foot race to the finish line at the summit of Mount Kosciuszko.