The Olympic Village has never been explored in literary fiction until now... Herman arrives in a village where Iranians share the bus with Israelis; where Chinese gymnasts eat alongside their rivals from Taiwan; where German & British athletes jog through the streets together; & where Kenyans & Ethiopians waggle their medals in unison. He is on a search for the right sporting heroes to conceive & raise a child. Unable to consummate his own relationships & having witnessed death in the Munich Olympic Village four decades earlier he wishes to make new life from love between different peoples nations & ethnicities. Herman encounters Lily Wei Lee a gymnast from Chinese Taipei. Believing she could be an ideal mother he searches for an appropriate athletic mate to be her partner. He encourages her flirtation with Moses a long distance runner from East Africas Great Rift Valley. Yet Lily develops a closer relationship with Roger Benjamin a British sprinter. A rivalry between Roger & Moses develops with humorous but also eventually shocking consequences. This is a novel about sporting destiny & the nature of human association the tension between physical & spiritual love. There are references images & allusions to real & historical athletes from all the worlds Olympic Villages: from Derek Redmond to Fu Mingxia from Bob Beamon to Sharron Davies from Roger Federer to Sally Gunnell. All their destinies become associated with Hermans fate as a go-between in the love & loves of the villages youth.""