Race Across the World contestants Monique and Ladi are determined to win (Picture: BBC)
As the third season of Race Across the World comes to a close, one team believes they still stand a chance of winning despite not leading in any leg.
This time around, five teams have been making their way across Canada with a limited budget.
While the competition has been pretty even between the group of pairs, father-daughter duo Ladi and Monique haven’t been able to take the lead at the end of each leg to date.
However they’ve got faith all hope isn’t lost as the finale approaches.
Ladi, 52, is a sport and physical activity professional and consultant who lives in Essex, while his daughter Monique, 25, is an events manager and lives in East London.
Ahead of the final episode of the series, which airs this week, the pair have explained what winning the race would mean to them.
The cast of Race Across The World season 3 (Picture: BBC/Studio Lambert)
‘I’m not going to lie, I’m here to win,’ Ladi said.
‘That’s why we enter these things. Winning the race will mark the end of an important life moment for me and my daughter, definitely.
‘As I said right at the beginning, I’m never going to get this time again with my daughter. We came into this competition to win it but overriding the win is just getting to the end and completing a mission that we started but more importantly, completing it with my daughter and having that time with her.’
He said that was ‘the most important’ part of the experience.
Adding that they were both ‘so competitive’, Monique said they ‘wouldn’t ever enter a competition to just complete it – we want to win, we want to go for gold’.
Addressing their lack of a win to date, she said it was ‘well overdue’ that they did so.
‘Like Dad said, getting to complete this journey and experience things that some people will never ever experience is so magnificent and so special,’ she said.
She added: So, whatever the outcome is – I’m so happy that I’ve done it with Dad.’
The father-daughter duo are yet to win a leg since starting the race (Picture: BBC/Studio Lambert)
A few weeks ago Ladi revealed he was secretly in agony throughout the competition series after sustaining a painful injury.
He explained that he believed he ‘overstretched my Achilles or something’ and had been left in ‘proper pain’.
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Meanwhile Monique was also contending with a nasty injury of her own after cutting her foot and needing stitches.
While advised not to continue on in the competition by doctors, she said quitting ‘wasn’t an option’.
Race Across the World airs Wednesday at 9pm on BBC One.
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‘Winning the race will mark the end of an important life moment.’
