{"id":5207,"date":"2016-08-05T21:24:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T13:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/05\/google-celebrates-the-olympics-with-a-bunch-of-cartoon-fruit-games\/"},"modified":"2016-08-05T21:24:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T13:24:34","slug":"google-celebrates-the-olympics-with-a-bunch-of-cartoon-fruit-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/05\/google-celebrates-the-olympics-with-a-bunch-of-cartoon-fruit-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Google celebrates the Olympics with a bunch of cartoon fruit games"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let the Fruit Games begin.<\/p>\n

Over the years, Google<\/a> has done many different style Google Doodles<\/a> to recognize the Olympic games. In their own stylized way, these daily drawings and animations usually celebrate the specific sports and, more broadly, the athletes and countries competing in them.<\/p>\n

For the 2016 Rio Olympics, though, Google is starting with something very different.<\/p>\n

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Appearing on the Google search page early Friday, the doodle, which coincides with the Olympics’ opening ceremonies in Rio, Brazil, features a minute-long YouTube video in which animated fruits from, according to Google, a fruit stand in Rio, compete in Olympic-style sports like marathons, spider-riding, water polo, bicycle racing and golf (welcome back!). Instead of gold, the fruit are competing for “freshest fruit” (groan). Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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