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 Thirteen: Grace, Grit, and Grapefruit Glamour
Today, the Fruit Bowl Arena transformed into a stage of elegance. No custard splashes or jelly tumbles — just high-fruit fashion, perfectly timed routines, and a fencing showdown so dramatic it could peel paint with tension.
Event One: Synchro Slice Skating Set on the cool-glide fruit rind rink, teams performed choreographed skating routines across thinly sliced melon and apple surfaces. Skates were carved from frozen kiwi skins. Music ranged from fruit-folk to fig ballads.
Competing duos included:
* Ruby Raspberry & Bluebell Blueberry (Berry Blast)
* Clementine Chloe & Olive (Team Citrus x Medley)
* Papaya Paula & Pineapple Pete (Team Tropical’s beloved duo)
Highlights:
* Ruby & Bluebell performed a mirrored spin to wild applause, ending in a strawberry-heart pose.
* Clementine & Olive brought modern flair and zipped through a complicated “citrus swirl.”
* Papaya Paula & Pete delivered a gentle, romantic routine to Figaro’s live vocals. Judges cried. One melon wept.
Gold: Papaya Paula & Pineapple Pete Silver: Ruby & Bluebell Bronze: Clementine & Olive
Event Two: Fruit Fencing (The Peel Duel) Elegant but intense, this one-on-one duel used banana peels as foils and thick plum pits as shields. Precision, footwork, and bravado were essential.
Finalists:
* Figaro the Fig
* Gooseberry Gus
* Mango Max
* Lemon Lorna
Gooseberry Gus opened strong but slipped during a defensive pirouette. Max was stylish but reckless, knocking over a fencing lamp. Lorna dazzled with her footwork, but Figaro — ever the showman — landed the final strike mid-spin while singing the final note of “Ode to a Juicy Victory.”
Gold: Figaro the Fig Silver: Lemon Lorna Bronze: Gooseberry Gus
Elsewhere at the Games:
* Granny Smith refused to fence. “I slice. I do not flail.”
* The Coconut Courier headline: “Fruit Fly or Just Fly Fruit? Elegance Returns in Day Thirteen’s Grace-Off”
* A peculiar message appeared on the judges’ scoreboard just after the fencing final. Three blinking letters: D.O.T. Nobody could explain where it came from.
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.
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