Rivals

Greetings to everyone, the following story was inspired by the digital art of @xpilar, I invite you to visit his blog. The picture that motivated this story is the following.

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Rivals

Several thousand years had passed since sports competitions were subject to the rigors of terrestrial gravity, the inhabitants of the colonies, almost all of them accustomed to planets with gravitational attraction smaller than that of the Earth, were capable of physical prowess never dreamed of by ancient humans.

Curiously enough, if an ancient human were subject to the same conditions as the present ones, having a musculature adapted to a more rigorous environment, he would be able to easily surpass most of the athletes of the colonized worlds.

The Olympics of the colonies were held every twenty years, the event brought together the most outstanding athletes from all planets, satellites and space stations, to compete for ninety days in more than three hundred sports and individual games and teams.

This year, one of the events that had attracted the most attention among spectators and sponsors was free climbing, with no bodily modifications. The reason for this interest, is the personal story of the two participants who have become protagonists of the competition.

Sofia Sarmiento and Martha Coppola, both from Hephaestus, a relatively new world, less than two hundred years old, both students of the same academy and inhabitants of the same settlers' settlement.

And for more coincidence, both were sharing the same coach, Alexander Dominik, a retired climber, three times winner of gold in the male modality of the category with body modifications less than ten percent.

Alexander, who for more than eighty years holds the record for the fastest ascent to the summit of Mount Hades, without life support, had to give up the Olympic competitions requiring body modifications of more than fifty percent of his body, to complete such a feat. He would sponsor and train both climbers, among whom there was a healthy rivalry from a young age.

After a ferocious classification, the two rivals, that as peculiarity had been trained by Alex in Hermes, sanctuary planet in which the gravity is superior to the average of the colonized worlds, with which they developed a musculature and bone density very superior to the remaining participants, managed to pass together to the final surpassing their competitors with great facility.

The final would take place on Mount Vesta, an extinct volcano in the middle of the forests of Dione, planet that hosted the Olympics that year, after a series of amazing demonstrations of the physical skills of both participants, it would be Sofia who managed to reach the summit first and activate the siren that announced the end. becoming worthy of gold.

Sofia and Martha, sisters by paternal genes, and with a very similar history, that year put Hephaestus on the podium, in his first participation in an Olympiad, a world that guided by Alex would dominate the climbing competitions for two hundred years.

Text of @amart29 Barcelona, Venezuela, July 2019

Other stories from the series Time and Space

• Los Puentes / The Bridges
• El Vacío / The Void
• Eventos poco Afortunados / Unfortunate Events
• Silecio / Silence
• Al Final / At the End
• Ascenso / Climb
• Rivals
• Taranis / Taranis
• Día de Pesca / Fishing Day
• Fortuna / Fortune
• Después de la Tormenta / After the Storm
• Orfeo / Orpheus

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