Whereas filming FOX’s Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Take a look at final June, three-time Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy was surrounded by a number of fellow faces acquainted to sports activities followers. Danny Amendola, Dwight Howard, Carli Lloyd, Nastia Liukin and Mike Piazza had been additionally forged on the present. A World Cup winner, a Tremendous Bowl champ and the preferred New York Met of all-time all finishing particular operations coaching for the leisure of viewers sitting on their couches a number of months later in air con. That is sensible. What pure benefit does an X Video games athlete have in that setting?

“The athletes have a background in sports activities. So we’re used to pushing our our bodies to the bounds. And I feel that that clearly got here into play within the present,” Kenworthy instructed Deadspin final week. “However I feel that every contestant was actually pushed to their very own private limits. And so somebody who was 60 years previous and somebody who was not an athlete would get pushed differently than somebody that was an athlete. So I really feel like all of us acquired pushed as onerous as we may have gotten pushed. I do assume that there most likely was a profit in being athletes. And I additionally assume like for Dwight and Carly and Danny, being part of a group sport I feel most likely helps as properly as a result of it form of was like a group train and a team-building expertise. And I feel that that they had a very good basis for that.”

No different athlete on the present moreover Kenworthy was an action-games athlete. Harnessing your adrenaline is essential in snowboarding and any sports activities you’d see within the X Video games, and Kenworthy didn’t draw back from that in filming the present. He didn’t get to indicate the complete vary of his athleticism throughout his look on MTV’s The Problem: Champs vs. Professionals in 2017 because it was a half-season for charity. FOX’s viewers are getting the complete image.

“I assume the issues that some folks had been terrified of didn’t actually hassle me, like leaping out of the helicopter and like a whole lot of these issues had been enjoyable to me,” Kenworthy mentioned. “That’s really the explanation I signed up for the present, as a result of they had been like ‘Hey, you may need to leap off a shifting boat, soar out of a helicopter. Do that, do this.’ And I used to be like ‘Oh, that sounds enjoyable. I want to do this if anyone requested me to anyway.’ So I feel that these issues perhaps I had a bonus as a result of I’ve completed one thing that’s form of daredevil-ish for a very long time. However I don’t know if that truly helps so much with the bodily challenges.”

‘Surprising and thrilling’ end

The season finale Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Take a look at airs Wednesday and whereas Kenworthy was tight-lipped about what’ll transpire because the journey ends, he did share that the ending is “surprising and thrilling.” Regardless of the struggles viewers will see every contestant going by way of, Kenworthy instructed Deadspin he’d do one other season of the present if requested partly as a result of he appears again upon the expertise fondly.

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“It was kind of a surreal experience. I kind of knew what I was getting myself into, but ultimately, I actually didn’t. It was more difficult and also just different than I anticipated going in. And it wasn’t fun, really,” Kenworthy said. “It was kind of like an exercise in discomfort and just sitting with that discomfort and being in pain a lot of the time. We were always hungry, we’re always hot. You never got to relax because you never knew when you were gonna get called into action basically. It was just like high tension. But I feel like I made friendships and I feel like I learned about myself and ultimately, I’m grateful for the experience. It’s weird watching it back. It’s kind of like reliving the experience. And as with any reality show, a lot of things get sort of mixed up in the edit. So I feel like some things got misconstrued and drama got heightened and tensions got manipulated a little bit. So it’s been interesting to watch it back.”