(Probably Found) Can't remember title or author - alien sports

[caforever99]

I can remember reading this book sometime prior to 1986.

This book describes a human dominated interstellar empire. One of the ways humans maintain their dominance is to have a team of "olympian" athletes that compete against aliens in the alien's own sports and under the alien's conditions of temperature, gravity, atmosphere, etc. Eventually, the aliens band together and wipe out humanity to the last man and woman. The book book begins and ends on the same note, some slime in a pond that would eventually be Man.

Any help would be much appreciated, I have tried to recall this title for years and have never succeeded.

 

[caforever99]

I posted this question a couple of years ago. It got no replies. I thought I would give it one more shot where some fresh eyes might see it.

I can remember reading this book sometime prior to 1986.

This book describes a human dominated interstellar empire. One of the ways humans maintain their dominance is to have a team of "olympian" athletes that compete against aliens in the alien's own sports and under the alien's conditions of temperature, gravity, atmosphere, etc. Eventually, the aliens band together and wipe out humanity to the last man and woman. The book book begins and ends on the same note, some slime in a pond that would eventually be Man.

Any help would be much appreciated, I have tried to recall this title for years and have never succeeded.

 

[dasvfa]

Check out "Birthright: The Book of Man" by Mike Resnick