Marblelympics tragedy

[feng_shui_house]

In 2017 fidget spinners in an event called 'Collision' were used to increase speed and heighten the excitement. Marbles expressed safety concerns but the event went ahead as planned. Momomomo of Team Momo was horrifically injured when a fidget spinner flung them against a marble of the opposing team. The force was so great a chip was actually sheered from Momomomo.

Momomomo's team was devastated.

Fidget spinners have since been banned. Momomomo made a full recovery and their return to competion in 2018 was met by cheers from all the fans.

The video is a fan made one, not an official.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ysMHfAmjg

I love the comments on all the YouTubes of these videos. People write such lovely things about their favorite teams and favorite marbles... :^)

I have a soft spot for marble Mary of Team Primary. She did such a great job in the Curling primaries in 2018...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AquKagyBTIM




The match between Team Momo and Team Wisps begins at 8:23, accident at about 8:26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOSGHWdLUCg&list=LL1FcbS_2xtMGsnOP5orZZEw&index=138


I love the commenters-- here's just 2 of them.

River Kath
1 year ago

Olymipian: breaks arm
Everyone else: Eh...
Momomomo: gets chipped
Everyone else: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!


TheWinterOwl
8 months ago

I'm late to the party, and have been reading comments from the rebroadcasts of earlier events, so I had a pretty good idea what was coming... But that was still way too horrifying. Amazing that they just picked up Momomomo's bigger pieces and kept playing like it was just part of the game. Even more horrifying, the officials actually let play resume with a significant shard of the injured player still inside the arena! What is this, the Coliseum and gladiatorial combat!?




And then I found the wiki- there's a photo showing Momomomo in surgery-- and one of the commenters was horrified at the invasion of his privacy.

https://jellesmarbleruns.fandom.com/wiki/Team_Momo

Comments

[vera_j]

I would never say that all this is possible.

[feng_shui_house]

The videos have hundreds of thousands of hits- Momomomo is one of the world's most famous marbles. :^)

[sallymn]

This is all all terribly tragic... and makes me incredibly happy :)

[feng_shui_house]

Yes! That's exactly it. :^)

In later videos, Momomomo was in the stands cheering his team on, before he was recovered enough to rejoin the team.

I love the humanity they give these marbles.

Sometimes the fan marbles get upset if they don't like a ruling and security marbles have to calm them down.

They've had a marble streaker, and another marble, probably drunk, who rolled into the playing arena and could have been seriously hurt!

It is joy.

I watched a sponsored shorter series of events today- Cravendale Milk- filtered to stay fresh for seven days! And it was glorious, too. The Opening Ceremonies have stop motion of the marble teams lining up and the sponsor marbles, the Duke and Duchess of Craven, taking their places to observe.

Cravendale- Last Marble Standing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRvoxRaeuno