Jubal_Harshaw
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Looking for a book that I read as a kid in the early 80s or late 70s. Would probably be classified as YA SciFi.
The background was that the Olympics had moved into space, and each planet would send a team. The colonists in a sparsely-settled new region of the galaxy did not have the resources to field a team for each planet, so they formed a team with different athletes from different planets. I remember that the swimmers were from a planet with a completely-water surface (no land masses) and that the wrestler or weightlifter was from a high-gravity planet. I don't remember any of the others.
The organizers of the event would "norm" the athletes from planets with different gravities, so that a stronger colonist from a high-grav world would not have an inherent advantage competing on a lower-grav world.
It seems like there were various adventures, espionage and galactic intrigue of some sort.
The background was that the Olympics had moved into space, and each planet would send a team. The colonists in a sparsely-settled new region of the galaxy did not have the resources to field a team for each planet, so they formed a team with different athletes from different planets. I remember that the swimmers were from a planet with a completely-water surface (no land masses) and that the wrestler or weightlifter was from a high-gravity planet. I don't remember any of the others.
The organizers of the event would "norm" the athletes from planets with different gravities, so that a stronger colonist from a high-grav world would not have an inherent advantage competing on a lower-grav world.
It seems like there were various adventures, espionage and galactic intrigue of some sort.