 Controversy has surrounded the final leg of the Season 7 race: when  Uchenna and Joyce arrived at the airport in San Juan, both Rob &  Amber and Uchenna & Joyce were sold tickets for a flight leaving  later than one whose gate was about to close. While Rob & Amber  managed to get on this earlier departing flight, Uchenna and Joyce  were shown by the gate as the boarding corridor between the gate  exit way and airplane began to shut. After a commercial break, the  boarding corridor reopened to the gate to pick up Uchenna and Joyce.  No explanation was given as to why the gate reopened, which has led  to widespread speculation about intervention by the production  staff. In the "Revisiting the Race" special feature on the Season 7  DVD, Uchenna, Rob, and Phil Keoghan deny the accusations of  intervention by the production crew. Uchenna describes his  experience with finding the same airline agent at the gate who had  previously informed him that there was no earlier available flight.  Rob describes Uchenna running around frantically trying to get onto  the flight, which the final edited version of the show does not  portray. Phil cites the fact that the decision to re