He went right to work wooing Olympics czar Juan Antonio Samaranch, who awarded Tsutsumi Japan's first Gold OlympicOrder in May 1991 and Nagano the Olympics one month later.
Khan insisted after a pulsating contest that he still intended to shun the riches on offer to him in the professional ranks in order to chase more Olympic glory in Beijing.
In order to be an Olympic gold medalist in almost any discipline, you need to train hard every day for an extended period of time and you need a genetic advantage.
The exemption covers those athletes who are visiting the UK in order to compete in the Olympic Games and a limited number of people who are visiting the UK to work on Games-related activity.
As peers held their daily question session with government ministers on 22 May 2012, Lord Haskel tabled a question asking "why British companies who have supplied innovative products to the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games are unable to publicise those products in order to gain further business".
Not too long ago in light of the Rafalca story, the Romney Olympic dancing horse, I described the hoops that an individual has to jump through in order to post a negative number on a Form 1040.
The challenge has been joined this week at the Olympic trials, where Phelps is off to a smashing start as he seeks to qualify in enough events in order to beat history in Beijing.