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One day in late spring, was picking mushrooms Vegestorix Roman camp near the Aquarium when he heard loud cries of joy that came from the Roman site. Gluteus Maximus was selected to represent them in the Olympics.

Vegestorix reported this news in the village and soon learned that the Olympic Games consisted of a sacred truce maintained while developed various athletic events in the Greek city of Olympia. The games were held every four years in the month of hecatombeon and lasted five days.

Gluteus Maximus was training in the woods when crossed with Asterix and Obelix beat it on all the evidence, returned to camp very demoralized and told his centurion, Tulius Borricus, not wanting to participate in the games because he was overcome by two Gauls in the forest.

Tulius Borricus went to the village of the Gauls and met with the head Vitalstatistix who asked that his train left Gauls quiet Mulus their champion. The Gallic chief replied that he would think and answer. Vitalstatistix, meeting with the villagers decided it best that they also participate in games, since the potion could win any event. Vitalstatistix was the Roman camp and told the centurion Borricus decided, but replied that the games were reserved only for the Greeks and Romans.

Sorry Vitalstatistix returned to the village with the news, but Asterix found the solution: they, from the conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar, were also Romans. In the village everyone wanted to be the representatives, but there was a problem, the qualifying ended in a draw, since the potion gave equal force to each. Finally they decided that their representatives would be Asterix games, being the most intelligent and who had the idea, and Obelix to have the strength continuously. In addition, all the men of the village accompany them to Greece.

Immediately began preparations in the village: Vitalstatistix handled the trip, hire a good galley, Getafix the technical preparation of athletes; Cacofonix ceremonial. After a pleasant journey, they had to make galley slaves and an encounter with pirates, finally arrived in Piraeus, the port of Athens. In Athens, while touring the monuments, they found their "compatriots" Roman Aquarium. In the ballroom he said he stood Vegestorix ten years younger, now felt as a young man of 83.

Finally they reached the city aa games, Olympia, the sacred city with its temple to Zeus and the statue made by Phidias, one of the wonders of the world. Garmonparnas, the judge told them that in Olympic games competitors are prohibited from taking any substance capable of providing additional forces under penalty of disqualification. The Gauls decide to compete without the magic potion for Asterix represented.

In competitions triumphed only Greek athletes. Sopaconondas, Olympic president of the Senate, spoke to the senators the problem facing them in the future if only his athletes triumphed, tourism would decline, because the Romans would not want to continue attending. Sopaconondas he proposed as a solution, make a career just to Romans, and would at least have a winner.

Asterix and Getafix had the idea to induce the Romans to drink the magic potion with what would be disqualified, what actually happened. All the Romans came together to the finish and Asterix behind. The Gauls claimed that there was cheating in the race because the Romans had used a potion, the judges did show them the language and we all had blue sign that had taken a drink prohibited, unless the Asterix and he was proclaimed champion and received the Palme d'Or.

The Gauls returned to his village in the same ship that had brought them to Greece and the reception party when asked Asterix to show the Palme d'Or, it said that it had been a gift to someone who needed it more than he . Julius Caesar, in Rome, very happy with the win in the Olympics Gluteus Maximus had risen to centurion and Tulius Borricus a tribune.

Asterix Volumenes (1959)

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Dargaud

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