Greg Evans
Aug 03, 2021
Cast your mind back a few months and you might recall the cult following that a tiny remote Volkswagen car generated at Euro 2020, simply by bringing out the ball at the start of the match.
It generated tones of memes and some loyal fans but all good things must come to an end. Fortunately, though, the Olympics rolled around a few weeks later and wouldn’t you know it, there are more little cars in Tokyo for people to go gaga over.
New tiny Toyota cars, or field support robots, have been popping up all over the Olympic games in Japan, firstly at the Rugby Sevens event where it was seen kicking the ball between the posts, much to everyone’s delight.
A tiny car brings out the rugby sevens ball before the match and drops it on the pitch https://t.co/LXryLa1xSU vi… https://t.co/OluBYe5drZ— Jeroen Bartelse (@Jeroen Bartelse) 1627380200
TINY LITTLE RUGBY BALL CAR!!! #Olympics— Laura Lawrence ⚽📚 (@Laura Lawrence ⚽📚) 1627379952
Yay! @TinyFootballCar's cousin, Tiny Rugby Car! Great to see you! 🏉🚗🤩 #Rugby #Olympics #Tokyo2020 https://t.co/osK78UPJ2Z— Gillian (@Gillian) 1627257718
Fans of tiny cars delivering balls to sporting events, rejoice. The #Olympics Rugby 7s has you covered #Rugby… https://t.co/QxEf5bfWrV— Steve McCaskill (@Steve McCaskill) 1627257607
Now that the track and field events are underway, they’ve also been spotted picking up the hammer after it has been thrown by athletes.
Wondering what had happened to the little #Euro2020 football-carrying car? Well... it's found a new job it seems. 🤣… https://t.co/LUq5F3Nawr— BBC Sport (@BBC Sport) 1627991811
THERE IS A TINY HAMMER CAR come on Olympics where is my TINY HAMMER CAR feed? #olympics— Abbi (@Abbi) 1627886450
I’m dying over the tiny remote control car used to retrieve implements in the hammer throw #Olympics https://t.co/ozdaZOUm0N— Midwest BogWitch (@Midwest BogWitch) 1627777432
Unfortunately, the tiny car from the Euros didn’t seem to be impressed about this and claimed to know nothing about his distant relative in Asia.
https://t.co/Hh2p0ECclk https://t.co/8RZJB02N0e— Tiny Football Car (@Tiny Football Car) 1627993266
Are you sitting comfortably? Well, be prepared to have your mind blown. These little cars have been at the Olympics before. Here is one delivering some javelins during London 2012.
Love these mini cars used to carry equipments during field events at the Olympics The first time they were used wa… https://t.co/SMWmK43xHi— Aniket Mishra (@Aniket Mishra) 1627993328
WHAT. A. TIME. TO. BE. ALIVE.
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