London: The city that never... will go hungry

The best place in the world to come to discover your place in the genetic lottery of life is the Olympic Village in the days leading up to the Games.

This week, the planet’s fittest, fastest, strongest and most perfect physical specimens of humanity are flooding through the gates of this corner of London real estate and calling it home for the next two weeks.

Yesterday we joined them for a few hours in this inner sanctum. Let’s just say that no amount of sucking in of stomachs and pumping out of chests could lessen the difference between us mere mortals and the world’s elite sportspeople.