Image Description: A cheerful illustrated poster for the Fruit Salad Olympics. Set against a bright blue sky with fluffy clouds, the image shows four anthropomorphic fruits — a smiling strawberry, a happy pineapple, a cheerful blueberry, and a lively banana — all leaping joyfully with their arms raised. Above them, large cream-colored text clearly reads “FRUIT SALAD OLYMPICS” in bold block letters. Below the title are the five Olympic-style rings in blue, black, red, yellow, and green. The entire scene is flat and cartoonish in style, using clean lines, vivid colours, and a playful tone.
The Fruit Salad Olympics – Day Nine: Coconuts, Climbs, and a Curious Clue
With the games now tipping into the second half, today saw a return to classic fruit strength and agility — plus a quiet mystery that left more than a few seeds of suspicion.
Event One: Coconut Climb Held at the Palm Pod Tower, this vertical event tested each competitor’s grip, balance, and nerve. Fruits had to climb a swaying coconut trunk, leap to a banana rope, and ring a golden pineapple bell at the top.
Competitors included:
* Mango Max (Team Tropical)
* Granny Smith (Team Orchard)
* Gooseberry Gus (Team Medley)
* Clementine Chloe (Citrus Surge)
Mango Max charged up the trunk with flair but slipped on a patch of shredded coconut. Granny Smith moved with slow, deliberate control, reaching the bell with a proud thunk. Gooseberry Gus got halfway before vertigo kicked in and he politely climbed back down. But it was Clementine Chloe who wowed the crowd, leaping from banana rope to bell in one clean, citrus-scented swing.
Gold: Clementine Chloe Silver: Granny Smith Bronze: Mango Max
Event Two: The Peach Vault This high-stakes event combined strength, launch, and soft landings. Each fruit vaulted using a giant celery stick, aiming to clear a suspended line of spinning melon hoops.
Finalists:
* Pineapple Pete
* Olive (Team Medley)
* Bluebell Blueberry
* Papaya Paula
Bluebell nearly made it through but got wedged in a hoop mid-spin. Olive soared with elegance and a triumphant wink. Pineapple Pete’s hair got caught on a cantaloupe, and Paula made a perfect landing — then took a bow.
Gold: Papaya Paula Silver: Olive Bronze: Bluebell Blueberry
Backstage Curiosity:
After the Peach Vault, several athletes reported a strange sound in the locker hut — described as a soft clicking and a faint robotic voice repeating:
“Memory stable. Observing fruit interaction. Harmony required.”
Coach Kiwi thought it was a juicer malfunction. But Granny Smith was later overheard saying:
“That’s no blender. I’ve heard that voice before… long ago, near the Root Cellar.”
Meanwhile, the mysterious jam smear on the ceiling now resembles something almost like a signature — the letters D…O…?
Elsewhere:
* Figaro the Fig has started sketching blueprints for a new opera: “The Binary Blossom.”
* The Coconut Courier’s headline today: “Juice, Jumps, and Jargon – Is There More to These Games Than Fruit?”
Blind Man Makes 